The Formation of a People

A people is formed by a shared trauma-- they band together for survival, and bond.

Those who become the Mennings come together in anguish for the fate of the Biosphere; they fear for Its fate as they fear for their own, for it is one, a shared fate, for they know that man can only ever live in the Biosphere; to destroy It is an act of suicide.

And out of this time of their origin comes the myth of origin.  Out of the stark survival-logic of their plight comes the Mythos that carries its Ethos; and from this people, the Mennings, comes the Menning, ecological culture-civilization, the only hope for Biosphere, and Mennings.