In the beginning is a tree in a walled garden, the walls already crumbling . The cosmic bull gallops on rain clouds fertilizing the earth while in the distance is the first of many towers in the painting. This one is a statue holding the disc of the world and the energy of thunder in the primeval unity of mass and energy. Below in the waters lies leviathan still ruling the waters of consciousness. Monkeys climb the boughs of the tree in the garden. One takes a red fruit cultivating the development of human’s eyes in the quest for fruit while another is bitten by a snake that begins to uncoil from the form of the ouroboros or the snake biting its own tail in eternity. As it uncoils eternity is left behind and we enter into time and the bite brings awareness of death. Two figures a man and woman flee the walled garden of nature and enter into the world of human awareness. There is a man with a two faced head in his hand showing that no longer is consciousness unified as in the statue from the background in which mass and energy were contained in his hands in the form of the earths disc and lightning but have separated and life and death are now separate and motivating elements.. Continuing there is a family group, an old man speaks while birds circle his head giving him inspiration for his sounds. He is part of a family of multiple generations, they huddle together as babies crawl over them born early so their heads can continue to develop to carry the large brains that make us human. The man looks down into the water and sees a crocodile and prepares to protect the vulnerable early humans.

Now thoroughly separated from nature humans form hunting parties and shamanism as a way to reconnect to that which was lost. A figure like Dionysus carries a staff that grows into a tree climbing up to the sky. He now possesses the connection to the eternal in his staff which echoes the world tree of Norse and biblical mythology at the center of the world. He gives his blessing to the hunters who carry a deer they have slain and gives meaning to life which must live on life. Behind these figures strengthened by greater abilities and organization early migrants spread out to populate the planet. In the foreground a man carves a statue of the many breasted goddess of nature using simple tools to solidify a cultural idea and tradition , while developing the beginnings of technology. Next to him another exchanges shells with a stranger as these different groups of settled figures interact and begin to trade.