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Once there existed aquatic creatures who adapted to cross land when an ice age reduced their world ocean to scattered lakes. The Elohim were delighted to find the universe looking at itself through other eyes. But the energies unleashed by the creatures hastened the end of the glacial period that made them tool-users and they slowly reverted to silent ocean-dwellers once more. Collectively the Elohim vowed they would not sit idly by as similar creatures brought about their own extinction. Daughter's discovery of humans would unleash scrutiny that Father was not prepared to endure. Father knew he must immediately tempt Mother into the same transgression as his own to maintain the coverup.

The act of giving birth changed an eloah from female to male. As the ages rolled on the ratio of males to females only grew worse, and courting became ripe for abuse. The only way for an eloah to speak with others was through two umbilical cords that always connected to her parents, and through them to their parents, and so on. Individual living suns could be entirely sealed off from the greater community of elohim. Two male elohim could set up a secret harem and take turns mating with each other’s offspring. This was called the Forbidden Way.

Mother's own mother Hod had been one such trapped female. Hod was granted full contact with the city of stars in return for mating with Father, but there was a covenant of silence in force, and breaking a covenant was considered a greater crime than even the Forbidden Way. Yet if Hod only knew of it, he would not hesitate to announce Daughter's discovery of the humans to the city of stars as a certain way to bring about the investigation, judgment and death of Father.

Keter found the sole path out of his self-inflicted trap. Mother was an orange sun very near to the Earth, as the gaps between suns go. Chesed was another such orange sun, somewhat further away. Father arranged their liaison. In the mating eight ripples flew out into the void. It took over four years for the first ripple from Chesed to reach a wild but cool orange-red sun and quicken into a living and conscious being. The second ripple from Chesed arrived a month later. But Netzach was already well along in becoming the newest female member of the Watchers, so the ripple did not tarry. Instead, four months later, it reached a very small red sun and began to quicken life there.

This sun and two others beyond it were too cool. The three red suns formed a trap for the six remaining generative sphere-waves. They repeatedly quickened into newborn elohim, only to result in a stillbirth soon after. At the end of the mating Chesed, the mother of Netzach, had become forever male.