There is a place in what was once called Persia where there lives a tribe.

Theyve lived there for most of recorded time. Or rather that is theyve lived thereabouts for the whole of recorded history for, being nomadic, they never stay in anyone place for too long. They are obviously different now to the way in which they began what with countless births and deaths, fashions, rulers, gods, changes in beliefs and variation in their fortunes from kings to slaves and back again. But still it can be sensed that there is some real essence of this tribe which may be said to reside unchanging in this place. One of the key reasons that this is apparent is due to theyre unique folklore which although never written down or translated to a wider audience is nonetheless considered defining. It is not however some vast sprawling patchwork of tales like the library once built in nearby alexendria. No it consists in fact of only three stories and even these are not known to every member of the tribe. Scholars writing on the subject today tend to trace the histories of these three chronicles in different ways depending on their interest in them but there is no-one who would deny that even one of the three would be a lifetimes study. Through talk with the wise men of the tribe and by comparison with archaeological evidence from neighbouring cultures, where written documents were commonly kept, they concur that the last of these myths was devised approximately 1500 years ago. This is much later than the other two and around the time that Western Europe was in the thick of the dark ages. There is some debate about the authenticity of these tales and it would seem that this is the one most likely to be a fake if any of them are since it is the only one of the three not directly attributed to awhhim the tribes singular and rather threadbare god. It is widely believed to be something in the way of a rejoinder to contemporary middle eastern philosophies of the time.and details the story of a king triumphing in the desert. Some critics of course claim that it should be disregarded from serious study as it is clearly not of the same vintage as the other two and therefore the intention behind it is more to do with plagiarism than with original authorship . Others however claim that this is precisely what makes this the most important of the three since it was conceived far later and at a stage when the other two were firmly established and yet it has come to play just as large a cultural role when it could just as easily have vanished with the fashions in the sand. The second of the tales dates back far further, to the 5th century B.C. It is believed to be occasioned when king Rjhut, one of the great historical figures of the peoples, was walking in the sands one day and up turned a crab that had lost its way from the ocean. upon its base he supposedly found the writings of their God and before casting it back into the sea to live out the remainder of its days he memorised sections fo the text and repeated them to each of his 19 courtiers. They in turn came to be the fathers of all the numerous wise men of the land today. .The final and by far the oldest of the three is concerned with the creation of the tribe and indeed of te universe at large. It is unknown from when this story dates but it details in great length how numerous objects in the universe came into being. Curiosuly it makes no mention of awhhim the tribes god or his role in each event though itt has been posited by some scholars that the tribe might believe the universe exists due to nothing more than a minor oversight on his part.