| In the Beginning | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Back to the Church | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The Major Prophets: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| From the Scroll of Beginnings Chapter 1: In the beginning there was only chaos. And The Entiny, forever to remain nameless, was formed from the chaos. And The Entity created the world, and mankind. And The Entity created the Great Beast. And man, built in the image of their creator, convinced that they were the only truth, stopped believing in the supernatural. And Mathematicus, The Great Beast, The Devourer of Worlds, The Prince of Darkness, The Terror that is Called Dragon, The Lord of the Pit, The Duke of Destruction, The King of Kamptozoa, in all its nameless, thoughtless terror, rose up to consume its creator. The Entity fled, in fear, never to return to this plane of existence. Chapter 2: And the Beast ruled supreme, and the world was chaos and darkness, and mankind, repenting their help in The Entity's end, sought to control the Beast, and join in its reign. And from the mind of man came light, and that light grew until it met with the Beast, and Beast begat Brain, and so the Great Brain, Trigonometrus, was created. And the Brain was discipline, and science, and civilization. And it was shaped the great raw force of Mathematicus, the beast, which all life must contain, and used it to its end. And those who did not follow the path of awesome did perish in the Withering Flames of Geometry and the Freezing Hailstorms of Calculus. Chapter 3: And as mankind sought the true discipline, the prophet Hipparchus was born. And as he searched for relics of the Mathematical faith, from Cathay to China, from Persia to Iran, from Burma to Myanmar, from Istanbul to Constantinople, he discovered a surprising truth. For the world is made of triangles! And he who understandeth triangles doth understand the world. And Hipparchus created the first Table of Ratios, in which he inscribed the Sacred Functions of Sine, and Cosine, and Tangent, and Secant, and Cosecant, and Cotangent, and after time man discovered the inverses which were in sooth Arcsine, and Arccosine, and Arctangent, and Arcsecant, and Arccosecant, and Arccotangent. And the Church of Trigonometry was founded. Chapter 4: And the Djinni, who had named itself Algebra and set up an empire in the Eastern Lands, made a pilgrimage to Mesopotamia, the Cradle of Civilization, where it met with the Brain, its founder. And they met, and consulted; and the Great Tortoise of Geometry, who had been terrorizing the countryside with the Sacred Thunder of Logic, came, and lo, brought with him the Scalene Triangle, a Greek concept, and they consulted wisely. And in the end, they created the Three Laws of Trigonometry: The Law of Sine, The Law of Cosine, and The Law of Tangent. Chapter 5: And yea, there was much rejoicing throughout the land. |
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| Hipparchus, the Father of Trigonometry, who produced the first Table of Ratios | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Pythagoras, who created the Order of the Pentagram, decreed that the world is in essence nothing but Mathematics. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Leonardo Fibonacci was the first man to mathematically analyze rabbit reproduction, and in the process discovered the Golden Rule | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sir Isaac Newton, the first Czar of Calculus, smote down his enemies by making a volley of freezing apples rain from the sky. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||