Was race indicated in the mythical world? Various races existed in some areas of the world that appeared at first glance to be animals, as they were covered with hair with exciting forms of bright clothing, their way of saying, “we are civilized people; do kill us and hang our skins up like trophies.” Other people existed. They were small, transparent apparitions, they had cities and towns, and some humans treated them as spiritual beings, laying offerings of items deemed as spiritual or religious at the entrance to valleys where their cities were. In regions where stories took place, many races weren’t logically explained, they existed, and they were considered people by some laws, humans were the majority race, but even among them, there was racism.
There was a race of beings or people covered with long shaggy hair they sort of resembled sheepdogs; the comparison ended there, their hair reached follicles of tubes that extended out and tapered to a sharp end, and on their bodies, the hair was matted down, and legs and arms were also covered with hair except for their feet and hands. Bright-colored sleeveless and sleeved tunics covered their bodies; they wore shorts because their hair warmed them. They lived in cities that, from a distance, looked like a forest. On closer view, the buildings were cylindrical with what appeared to have been branch-like things: thousands of antennae that absorbed solar energy and spheres that kept it stored.
The people of the hills and the sprites had problems for generations; guards had kept them apart, so they wouldn’t have gone to war, the results were disastrous for both sides, and there was a loss of power and community. The sprites were fairy-like, in human form, between apparition and physical; they could fly, hover, disappear and do magic. Such abilities had made hill people live in fear; they were sort of rock-like, stout and short, and their powers were great strength and technological knowledge. As weapons, the hill people built giant tractor-like machine weapons; the sprite people created creatures that fought the machines. Battle after battle, the sprite people won, then the hill people won another battle; it didn’t matter what the outcome was if their achievements or cultures were destroyed. The guards were like the go-between to prevent war, with neither side benefiting.
The concept of learning everything in the mythical world was the concept of learning, that diversity of beings was about keeping the world from being stale and boring, to have learned from other peoples as it was a way to be fully educated.
Robert J. Matsunaga
