one more octofact, spirituality
From a brief flit of reading of a Hawaiian creation myth:
'...Although we have the source of all things from chaos, it is a chaos which is simply the wreck and ruin of an earlier world...The drama of creation, according to The Hawaiian account, is divided into a series of stages....As type follows type, the accumulating slime of their decay raises land above the waters,
in which, as spectator of all, swims the octopus, the lone survivor of an earlier world.'
one more octofact, spirituality
I like that idea, I suppose: octopus as refugee of a universe lost, yet wiggly enough to survive through to the After.
People back then probably thought them just as alien as we find them now! There's a lot of strangeness to sea-life; s'part of why I find it so fascinating. :3
[source: https://books.google.com/books?id=gLIIAQAAIAAJ&pg=PP2#v=onepage&q&f=false , page 15]
one more octofact, spirituality
@neonNeptunian The last pale devolved remnant of a world ruled by the Great Old Ones. :-)