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Tagged: Origins of life

A vast headless protoplasmic mass sheds primitive forms into a dark primordial marsh, surrounded by weathered stone tablets.
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Ubbo-Sathla

Ubbo-Sathla is the primordial source of terrestrial life in Clark Ashton Smith’s story of the same name. A vast, unformed being in the earliest marshes of Earth, it produces the first patterns of living things and stands among tablets preserving the wisdom of prehuman gods. The attempt to reach that wisdom turns a modern reader’s investigation into a retreat through identity, ancestry and the origins of life.

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