Nivram And The Tribe Short Story

In the beginning, there lived a chief, Nivram, and his son, Omen. Nivram and Omen’s tribe believed in a great spirit, who gifted the tribe a giant rock. The rock symbolizes safety and protection over the tribe by the Spirit. When discovered, the rock boasted fruits and seeds, gifts from the spirit. Each week more seeds, fruits, and other supplies appeared at the rock. One rule for allowed for continuous supplies from the spirit, Nivram and all members must believe without doubt in the spirit. Nivram remained responsible to uphold the one rule because as chief, only Nivram could contact the spirit. The spirit never informed Nivram of the consequences if the one rule broke. One day Nivram left the village and went to the rock to pray. Suddenly, the valley around the great rock and the village began to shake, almost as if the Earth itself shook, and a great wall of water washed over Nivram and the village, but the rock protected him, by putting a special dome around him.

Nivram returned to the village, but all of the village’s buildings were gone, destroyed by the water.

Oddly, all of the tribe members remained unharmed and accounted for, except for Omen. Nivram and the tribe members searched and searched for Omen without any luck, only a child, they knew Omen would not survive on his own away from his father and the village. The aftermath of the great flood left the village as a swamp and the tribe members now must travel by boat through the village and the rest of the valley. Nivram began a massive search for Omen by himself, traveling for miles each week through the valley and surrounding area, but always returned and prayed at the now cracked great rock in hopes of finding his son. Nivram continued his search for ten long years. During this ten year period, the great rock remained cracked and supplies ceased to appear there for the

tribe.
One day when hope of Omen and the spirit’s return seemed slim, supplies appeared at the rock during Nivram’s prayer. The spirit once again spoke to Nivram and informed him that to find Omen and restore the connection between the spirit and the tribe to its previous form, Nivram must gather supplies and build a boat, alone, and search for Omen through the river, in which the great wave came from, causing the great flood.
Knowing winter would be coming in four short weeks, the tribe started rapidly gathering supplies to build a boat strong enough to withstand the rough waters of the Machuga River. While the villagers brought Nivram supplies, he started building the boat.
The seventh day of Nivram’s building of the boat, brought its completion. Nivram started the adventure of the Machuga River. After a week’s traveling, Nivram saw smoke on the horizon. Nivram sailed towards the smoke and saw a figure moving in the distance. Upon closer inspection Nivram realized that after all these years, his son Omen, as the Spirit hinted to him, indeed survived in the wilderness alone. Nivram made his way toward his son and they shared an embrace and Omen announced, “Dad, there’s a rock here too. The Spirit helped me survive, until you put all your faith in him again.” And so all now know that when natural disasters happen, it is due to doubt held by the chief of the tribe in the Spirit who provides for all our needs.

Job Description Detail
Paul Franolich - Illustrator - Paul searched for pictures that helped to show the village and or its members, to show the reader what we saw when writing our myth.

John Kerlicker - Writer/Typer - John wrote the myth on paper and typed the myth.

Andrew Oden - Thinker - Andrew played a very crucial role, by providing main characters and main story for the myth, along with creating the name of the myth and the characters.