This is a project I had to do for my Mythology class. Basically, we had to create a god or goddess and explain his or her story. I decided to create two gods. One would be Papyrus, the God of Paper, and the other would be Inkus, the God of Ink. Their story is told below. The cool part is that I used real dates. Five thousand years ago, the Egyptians created the first parchment from a plant called papyrus and the Romans created the first inks. Let me know what you guys think about it! Paper and Ink Five thousand years ago, two mortal brothers, Papyrus and Inkus, grew tired of using a primitive method of recording their thoughts. The method that was used is one that is familiar to us today from stories: A heavy clay tablet was used to record thoughts on, and a chisel was used to inscribe those thoughts into the tablet. The two decided that they needed an easier way to communicate, and decided that they should spend time apart to think of ways that they could improve upon communication. The two spent six months apart from each other in different parts of the known world. Papyrus crossed the Mediterranean Sea and wandered along the Nile River in Egypt. While there, he decided that he was going to try to eliminate the heavy clay tablet. Papyrus was walking along the Nile River one day when he spotted a plant growing along the edge of the river. He went to the nearest town and explained to the Egyptians what he was trying to do. They began to help him harvest the plant under his lead. They then returned to the town, where they peeled and sliced the plant into strips. The strips were then layered and pounded together, and then smoothed to make a flat, uniform sheet. Papyrus named the parchment after himself, and the Egyptians began calling it “paper” for short. Inkus decided that he was going to go to Rome. There he decided to eliminate the chisel—luckily he decided to do the opposite of what Papyrus was doing. Inkus decided that he would not be able to do this alone, so he asked the Romans to assemble to hear him out. Most of the Romans thought he was crazy, but many decided that they wanted to help him because they, too, were tired of the rock-and-chisel method. The Romans, under the lead of Inkus, created a reed-pen. They used the hollow, tubular stems from marsh grasses, mainly from the bamboo plant. They converted the bamboo stems into a primitive form of fountain pen. Inkus instructed the Romans to cut one end into the form of a point. Now that Inkus had created something to write with, he needed something that would actually put the thoughts onto something to record them. One day, Inkus saw a scuffle between several Romans, and one of them fell dead in a pool of his own blood. Inkus saw how the blood had stained his tunic, and decided to take up some of the blood. He put a bit of the blood into the reed-pen, and squeezed the end. By doing this, the blood oozed out of the end of the pen and he scribbled a message onto the man’s tunic. He jumped up excitedly and shouted out that he had finally done it. Inkus then thanked his Roman counterparts and promised that he would send back a message pertaining to the use of something to record thoughts on since they already had something to record thoughts with. Likewise, Papyrus did the same with his Egyptian counterparts and told them that he would send back a message pertaining to the use of something to record thoughts with since they already had something to record thoughts on. When the two brothers returned back to Greece and met up, they noticed that they had created the opposites of each other. Inkus explained to Papyrus how blood would write on something. Since he had used it all up, Inkus drew blood from himself and put it into the pen. Papyrus handed Inkus a sheet of the parchment he created and Inkus scribbled a message onto the paper. The two looked up and smiled at each other, for they had just simplified the method of recording thoughts by an unreasonably high number. Meanwhile, on Mount Olympus, Zeus had been watching Papyrus and Inkus. When he noticed that they had finally done what they had set out to do, Zeus sent Hermes down to call the brothers to Mount Olympus. It was the first time two mortal men had the privilege of going to Mount Olympus. Hermes informed them that they would be eating a meal with the gods. When they reached Olympus, Zeus told them that they would be transformed into gods because of their efforts in simplifying communication. After the dinner, Papyrus and Inkus sent messages to the Egyptians and the Romans, explaining to them just what they had to do. Ever since then, for the past thousands of years, men have simplified this method of communication even more and we now use the paper and pens that we have today.
Genius. I would've never thought of that idea!! Very creative. Good writing too, very informative on information about how the Egyptians and Romans made those utencils. 10/10
dont know what grade scale you get wherever you live... but its a 7A here probably took you ages to write, but its really good.
thats a cool idea of making them come from greece and travel to other parts of the world. hope you get a 10/10 for it.