There was a time when there were no Whales, no Minnows, no Dolphins, no Steemit and no Steem. Then one day the gods came down from Virginia and created "The Great Fire" and "The Great Water". The Great Fire and The Great Water mixed to become Steem and the Steem rose up and created "The Great Sky". The Great Water created the oceans.

The oceans are what allowed the first Steemians to swim. You may ask where did the first Steemians swim from? They swam from this land called, "Facebook". You see "The Great Island of Steemit" did not exist until The Great Fire formed volcanos in the ocean and from the volcanos The Great Island of Steemit was born. You are probably wondering why the first Steemians came in the first place? Why did they leave Facebook?

The first Steemians came because the land of Facebook was corrupt and it only had one Whale and that Whale was called Mark Whaleburg. Mark tortured his followers with fake news and made them watch ads. Some of these people fled. You see the first Steemians were refugees.

The first refugees were the best swimmers and they got to the Island of Steemit first. When they first got to Steemit there was Steem everywhere. That is why the Island was called Steemit in the first place. The first refugees took most of this Steem and became Whales. The second wave of refugees came and took the rest of the Steem and became Dolphins. The last refugees came on the third wave which was also called, "The Great Wave". The refugees on The Great Wave became the Minnows.

When new Minnows first get to Steemit they get 0.500 Steem and the Steem God gives them a temporary blessing called "Delegated Steem Power". Some Minnows worship and pray to the Whales and that is how they get Steem, but most minnows have to pray to the Steem God for their Steem and in 7 days a little bit of Steem will rain down from The Great Sky. We worship the Steem God and that is why we are called Steemians. Before it can rain there have to be clouds.

The "Witnesses" have to form blocks of clouds and these blocks connect to previous blocks of clouds to form a chain, so some people call them the Blockchain. This is also why some Minnows worship the Witnesses. To be a real Steemian you have to worship the Steem Gods and the Blockchain. Young Minnows that is enough for now. In chapter two I will tell you more about the evil Whale, Mark Whaleburg.

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