When the world was young, there were not any beasts with fur, birds, nor fish alike. Kvaksulu men would go hunting to the sea, hoping to bring home a squid, women were collecting mussels and crabs, and when food got scarce, they resorted to worms and flies, though not much were living on the islands, they often feared a great famine would come. The world was uncomplete, and no one had much to eat.
At that time in Hiyat, the underworld, Agís and Dsábul were slumbering. Only Qvuaksna could not sleep, hearing the fearful cries of his children.
Dsábul was shedding his skin in his sleep, and the dry scales were scattering over Hiyat. There were two rivers flowing through Hiyat, one fresh, one of salt, as Qvuaksna was bleeding into it. Some of Dsábul's skin fell into those rivers, and it became fish. The skin from his beard fell onto the ground, and it gave birth to beasts of the land. Some was taken by wind currents, it grew feathers and became birds.
But these animals were not very happy in the underworld. The fish had nothing to eat but each other, the beasts could not see in the dark, as well as the birds, and they all did no good but wreaked havoc.
There was an another Veláka in Hiyat, bearing the name Sorm. He was blind and was the keeper of this cavernous realm, and he wanted the animals to go away. Qvuaksna begged him to take them to earth, in order to help kvaksas and the world survive. Sorm agreed, but in order to fulfill the task, he would need to pass past Ánhrr.
Ánhrr was too a Veláka, and he was the doorwarden the world. A giant coiled serpent, wrapped around all of the earthy realms, from the lowermost up, his head sticking by Hádás' throne at the doorstep of Varvalma, the heavenly realm. Hádás did not care about the underworld, and tasked Ánhrr to block all the gates between the two worlds with his massive body.
Sorm asked Ánhrr to let him into the upper world, telling him he sought very much to experience it for himself. Ánhrr could not see him from above, but he heard what was happening at each gate. He asked Hádás for permission, and the king did not object, not suspecting anything in his pride. Ánhrr pushed his body away and made a crevice big enough for Sorm.
Sorm then hid the animals under his stomach, fish in his mouth if they needed it, and transported them outside. He did this three times, depending on the tradition of the story either once for birds of the sky, beasts of the land, and fish of the waters, or once for the fish of the freshwaters, fish of the saltwaters, and the rest.
On the third trip, however, Hádas grew suspicious of Sorm. He descended from his throne above the skies down, and caught him in the middle of his doing. He immediately ordered Ánhrr to shut the gates down. Sorm acted quickly, and pushed against the serpent, so that the last of the animals could escape, Ánhrr did not want to harm Sorm, so he stopped moving when he felt his touch.
Hádás bit off Sorm's hands, and the opening was shut, sealing Hiyat once again. Sorm's hands fell into the ocean, and become corals, colored with blood. Some of his blood also smeared a few trees, those would be called bleeding trees, producing dark red resin with healing properties, as Sorm possesed a great healing power, his lost limbs grew anew. From then on, he was greatly revered by all kvaksas as a brave hero, patron of doctors, ferrymen, and the blind. Kvaksas who were born without sight would be in his honor taken into cloisters, where they would became philosophers and preachers.
The world was now whole, and kvaksas were ready to embrace and fulfill the great prophecy, and conquer lands far over the seas, and wonder at all the peculiar beings, sucking milk and growing hair, they have not ever seen.
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