These people believed that mechanical dogs were deities or gods. It was questioned the difference between a god and a dog aren’t they the same? Why did what’s called a mechanical dog build so much awe? One thought these dogs were robotic; their outside appearance seemed machine-like with shiny metal. Yet, they seem biological and sometimes ghostly. They might be a combination of these three elements. These artificial dogs guard something that doesn’t make sense, a cone-shaped grass mound with things growing upon it. It’s assumed the interior contains something that controls the flow of rivers, ocean tides, night, day, and seasons, everything in nature. It was believed that these dogs bestowed favors on people if they behaved. Were these beliefs and assumptions true?
It rarely made sense that the highly advanced, technical people, such as the Sivol, believed a dog was a god. Well, the dogs could make objects appear out of thin air. It was if you asked for a bottle of water; if gold coins were needed to pay off landlords there, it was. It has been discussed for years if dogs were some kind of technology that could form things out of thin air or did they have the ability to rearrange molecules to create such things. These dogs don’t bark like the real ones; they flash with an overwhelming bright glow. Suspicions began to surface that the dogs were the eyes of someone observing the Sivol people.
Eons ago, Sivol people lived close to the sun; they repeated its life-giving energy. They lived on structures supported on tall pillars in the upper atmosphere. That was where the sun gave its power to the people’s comfort. Equally, tall ridges embraced these pillars. On a particular day, none recalls precisely, the sun’s intensity grew more fantastic, the rains seldom came, and the rivers, lakes, and oceans dried up. That was when the mechanical dogs appeared. They raised their paws, the rains came, rains continued for months, and times that it ceased, then rains continued to bring life back to the earth. Some of the Sivol were suspicious. Did the dogs have a sophisticated mechanism that knew when the rains would come? Or was it a coincidence? It was reasoned these mechanical dogs might have been able to change the laws of nature to the Sivol, which was considered impossible. It might have been magic.
A spiritual being called the Riaeen, somewhat like a wizard, set up the mechanical dogs maybe it was to help the suffering Sivol. Anyway, the dogs started breaking down; the rains still came. Eventually, they stopped functioning, and they melted away like butter. Obviously, the Sivol became so superstitious that the Riaeen intervened. The drought they experienced was natural if they had known their ancestors experienced the same generations ago.
