The Origin of the Langomorph

PERSONAL NOTE:

This was written as a biblical assignment for an undergraduate literature course titled  Animal 101 at University of California Santa Cruz 2011. This was based off of Genesis In the Beginning. 

    In the beginning, there was darkness, yet the Bunnie God was there. His name was

King Humpsalot and with a wave of his mighty snow-white paw, he created the bunnie

heavens, planets, stars, sun, moon and the Earth. The Earth was dark, so he called

the darkness Night and he called the light Day; which indicated the start of new days. Pleased with his work, King Humpsalot settled his fluffy head onto a cloud pillow on his bunnie cloud in Bunnie Heaven and rewarded himself with a nice, long nap.

    On the second day, King Humpsalot created the climate of the Earth. Clouds began to fill the bright blue skies, the sun shined through for morning light. The temperature was not too hot nor too cold. But the Bunnie God was not done. Something was missing on his Earth, something big. The Bunnie God had more ideas.

     On the third and fourth day, King Humpsalot created the oceans, lakes, waters and the grassy fields of the earth. The clouds began to darken, the light faded, the mighty wind began to blow, the thunder, lightning cracked across the sky and with a thump of his hind leg, the Earth shook and the ocean’s surface began to rise, forming the tall mountains, the green trees, the land. And the Bunnie King was pleased for he had created the Heavens the Earth, the solar system, the sun and moon, the waters and the land. But something was still missing, something did not seem right. The Bunnie King thought and soon had an idea.

       On the fifth day, King Humpsalot created a rabbit in his own image. Using his strong buck teeth, he twisted around to his back and pulled out a chump of white fur from his cotton cottontail. He then started to mold the fur with his paws; molding the hair like clay. When he finished, he had a chunky, white male dwarf rabbit with cherry colored eyes and tiny ears. He called the rabbit, Pinkie Binkie and placed him on a cloud that would float him to Earth.

    “Go forth, My Pinkie Binkie, go forth and live amongst the trees, burrow in the soft

ground, make a house for yourself, eat the carrots in the valley and the grass that grows on my

soil!”

      With that said, on the sixth day, Pinkie did as he was told when he reached the Earth. He burrowed great tunnels under the earth for his bedding and living quarters. He ate from the veggies that grew in the soil, ate the neon grass from the fields, ate the apples that fell from the trees. Pinkie had everything that a fat rabbit could ask for, but something was missing and the

Bunny God noticed. He had an idea.

     That night when Pinkie was sleeping under the stars (it was too warm and nice to sleep in the burrow), Sir Humpsalot took one of his bunnie ribs and molded it into a female Silver Martin rabbit with chocolate colored eyes, liquorish fur at the top, white eyeliner and a white belly whom he named Betty Page. When Pinkie awoke on the seventh day, he discovered his new friend.

       “Go forth, my bunnie children, go forth and multiply, produce more bunnies for the

world!” Pinkie thanked the Bunny God and walked with his new friend to the top of the hill to reproduce.

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