In the not-so-very long ago – only about three-and-a-half thousand years behind us – the maker chose a man with whom to make a mirror-agreement.
The maker remembered giving the littlemakers the rock they lived upon, and the authority to rule that rock however they chose.
The littlemakers made terrible choices, then blamed the maker for everything that went wrong.
The maker had given the littlemakers complete authority.
The maker was trapped on the outside, looking in.
The maker came up with a plan, but his plan would require a rockborn partner who was willing to make a mirror agreement.
If the partner of the maker honored that mirror, the maker would be free to rescue all the littlemakers from their rock that was now spinning out of control.
There were a thousand ways in which the maker’s plan could go wrong.
The maker chose Aba Gvoha to be his mirror-partner. “I will give you what you need from me,” said the maker, “and you will give me what I need from you.”
Aba Gvoha repeated the words of the mirror-agreement. “I will give you what you need from me,” said Aba Gvoha, “and you will give me what I need from you.”
Aba Gvoha then sealed their mirror agreement by slicing himself with a knife in the last place that any man would ever want to be sliced.
Aba Gvoha believed the pain of that cut was the most terrible pain that any man could feel.
But Aba Gvoha was wrong.