In Her Image

After relishing all the mass veneration that been heaped upon her, Sefira desired symbolic conquests that would prefigure her sovereignty becoming omniversal. For this did the Lesser Darkness set her sights upon select places on physical worlds she had modified.

Within these isolated places did certain species reside: australopithecines, or australopiths. On Earth, one of the australopith species had evolved into multiple homo species, including intelligent ones such as modern humans. As the dark sovereign observed them, she did so with obvious contempt and cast nothing more than eyes of destruction upon them. Those capable of observing her took meticulous note of her seething with contempt.

The created dark essence remembered her gratefulness for not having been commanded to love humanity, the ones who had been created in the original image of the Darkness and God, more than her mother. Even though she found no difficulty maintaining respect for these flawed creatures, the same could not be said about the creatures within her focused gaze. Simply put, the australopiths were not intelligent species.

The prejudiced one proceeded to compare the Adonim to these primitive species, while remembering the former's differences with humans, for she had indeed created them in her image, her new image of the Darkness and God. First, they possessed the most neurons within their respective cerebral cortices, surpassing even long-finned pilot whales in this regard. Second, they had cortical neuron densities exceeding those of humans, enabling all those neurons to function within cranial capacities identical to those of Neanderthals. Third, they were unrivalled in neural connectivity, surpassing those of orcas, and their brains possessed the highest degree of cortical convolutions, or folds, to reflect this. Even with all of these, they were also without equal in neural energy efficiency. In contrast, the australopiths before her possessed none of these.

Having reconsidered the intelligence-related advantages of her apex creations on the physical plane, the Lesser Darkness shifted her focus to other biological advantages.