In the beginning, no one had thought of anything to say. So people could only speak with their eyes. It took a long time, but this is how blinking started. After people had said all they could with their eyes and eyelids, they learned how to cry and decided that it could work for both happiness and sadness - mainly because it was a convenient binary. And it also made sense to the youth. The old people shrugged, they were simply tired of blinking.
After a while, folks realized that if they got worked up enough, that a tickling would start at their throat and they would just let out a holler. It took a lot of hollerin' and a huge amount of misunderstanding, but eventually humans stumbled upon words. No one knew that they should be written down or that they could really be confined. So there were about 2.5 billion words made up of about 783 letters and all the colors in the world, some were even plaids and polka dots. It sounds very complicated, but it was so beautiful that no one really minded. And each communication, never mind how mundane, was a lovely song or picture. People understood not just the words but the honesty behind them and the feel of them even before they were said.
But people get bored and need something to do (or they think they do) so they decided to write down all the meanings of the words. They lost the colors and most of the letters in the process. But then they had small words that were sum certain and they could point to a language that could capture and mean things.
And that's when they stopped being able to fly and know God. They became human and were unleashed upon the world.
