How the Daans Saved Civilization.

A Yahgahn Historical Fable

Ever since the Yahgahn religion first evolved, there has always been the Da’an Order. Priestesses of Ahn’Dahn and Shoikin, they embrace and embody all that those two Deities hold dear—life, love, sex, fertility, and balance. So it is only natural that they should be responsible for saving civilization from the re-emergence of a horrible idea, a horrid and irrational fear.

There was, soon after the Da’ans first started, one particularly thriving culture, the poor silly Tiirii (later responsible for the Jophwaan Island disaster). The Tiirii started out as an omni-religious culture, unique only in that they were the only post-Reformation culture to have an actual government.

Yet like many societies before them, the Tiirii started succumbing to a particularly destructive idea—the fear of sex.

Exactly how it began, no one remembers. But over time, this cultural backslide became so strong that it finally began to show more dangerous effects. Covering of bodies led to low self-esteem, restricted communication, and distracted people. But it only intensified from there to power struggles and rape—and a lessening population. Yes, their fear of sex got so intense that far more people died than were born.[1] The Tiirii culture was on the verge of collapse, and such a collapse might well have sent the whole Trelli race back into a pre-Reformation state, and maybe even into extinction. (As the Tiirii culture was a very large and influential culture.)

Luckily, the Da’ans had grown in influence enough to start spreading out. Soon, one of the Da’ans—named Ahn’Yuh’Ay’Noh—found the Tiirii in their problem, and was horrified. She soon brought over more Da’ans to the capital city of the Tiirii. There, they started the ten-year long process of the Tiirii Reformation with a very powerful, famous speech:

“People of the Tiirii, I am a Priestess of Ahn’Dahn and Shoikin—Deities of a religion called Yahgahn. I ask you to listen and think, and to remember.

“You look upon the way things are going—the self-pity, the fear, the rape, the negative population growth—and you blame sex. You blame that which the Deities gave us to further our species, the keep our species alive. But think: does that blame make sense? Do you remember a time before your fear of sex? I do not know if you do or not, but I know a culture that loves, embraces, and accepts sex. That culture is my culture. We shed our clothes, for they serve no purpose anymore, and we are not distracted by what’s under another person’s clothes.

“We are proud of our bodies, not ashamed. So proud that we all show them, and do not fear. Our relationships and discussions are free, for we accept nudity and pay little attention to it, for we have gotten used to it. But here, you all focus on clothes all the time, and wonder about what’s beneath them. It distracts you. I tell you, sex is not the problem. Fear of sex, however, is. In societies where sex is accepted, loved, and understood, sex hardly ever enters our minds unless we love someone. Sex is only an enemy when you fear it, as you do. Let us learn, then, to love, understand, and accept sex—for your survival. For you will surely die without sex—literally.”

And from then on began the long, arduous process of re-Reforming the Tiirii. It took a lot of effort, wisdom, and courage, but they did it, and saved civilization.

The moral of this story is that you should be cautious of what ideas you fear, for choosing an idea to fear that you shouldn’t fear could be your undoing.

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[1] And with Trelli life-spans as they are, this fear must have gone unnoticed by the Da’ans for several centuries to spread so badly through the Tiirii culture.