From these artificial structures with branches or veins thrust up from the ocean, thousands of cocoons are suspended by what were described as cables glistened in the sunlit sea. The cocoons were where people could transform themselves into spiritual butterfly-like beings. Sounds like death and the afterlife. In truth, it was the transformation to the in-between world of the spiritual and living. It’s been argued that wasn’t the spiritual, another form of a living world. These people called the Sivol life, and the living world was subjective and only about the state. The so-called living world, the physical and the spiritual non-physical body, then why not combine the two? 

When people felt the urge to join the Spirit world and the in-between, they went to the temple of Winds to lay down on a table of lights turning off and on a bubble surrounded them, comforted by grass and flowers. The priests performed rituals and chants; eventually, the person was covered in fine strands of silk that spun around their bodies. Once complete, a machine resembling a spider was used to hang the cocoon on the branching veins in the ocean. At first, the cocoon was white with glistening beads; gradually, it turned blue-green. When a new being was ready to emerge, a green glow emanated from the interior, then tears. What was born again was a pulsating bluish human being with wings like a butterfly, soaring in the sky and zipping around the oceans to try out their new wings and form. 

Where did they fit in society? They had developed places in artificial tree structures or areas high in the atmosphere. These people felt liberated in being reborn as butterfly people. Eventually, that part of the Sivol world became the elite dominating the unborn or those who didn’t transform. Could anyone have made the transformation as it was a thing of free will? Eventually, only those chosen by the butterfly people decided who could become part of their society. Years ago, few had made the transformation. The elite butterfly society ceased, and the modifications were temporary. It was actually a gateway to death, the last part of life. Thousands of years ago, priests turned people into butterflies to make the transition to death easier and calmer. Eventually, people who weren’t on the verge of death wished to become butterflies causing their early demise. Sometimes good intentions end up in a negative direction.