There are a peoples that lived many days ago. They lived similarly to the Vikings, they went on adventures in their giant boats and returned to their cliff city with all their riches.
One day a party came from a distant kingdom, the merchant leader had a daughter who went to the king. The Viking king was a great warrior and a big beaded man. The merchant's daughter was wearing strange clothes and had her hair done up in an unfamiliar style. She bowed before the king and without showing any emotion hold him simply ‘great lion,’ she said motioning towards him, ‘meet Father,’ motioning to her chest and then back at him, ‘meet daughter.’ Motioning back at herself.
The king was confused, his only daughter and heir had been kidnapped when she was very young. This woman before him was a stranger though.
Seeing his confusion the woman smiled. Her face lighting up with radiant happiness. In that smile the king recognized his daughter, she looked a lot like her mother and was just as striking. The king welcomed her into his arms and his world.
The woman quickly began to show signs of pregnancy. A child born from one merging of man and woman in a coming of age tradition was bound to be a strong warrior indeed.
Before giving birth it was customary for a woman to find a pool of water and baptise the warrior within her before he/she came into the world.
All the women in the royal family went into a cave far beneath the castle and bathed in a salty pool. The king's daughter went to do this too, she had many on-lookers wishing her well.
Once she was in the water up to her waist something slid across her calf, burning her skin. She screamed and everyone in the cave panicked. The woman's mother had died from similar burns believed to be brought on by the ocean spirits. The King kneeled down beside his daughter, who reached up and grabbed the pommel of the sword hanging at his waist. She thrust the sword into the thrashing water, pulling herself out and kneeling on the rocks. Something in the water was trying to get away from her stabbing. She reached in and pulled a tentacle out. It burned her hands and arms but she kept pulling it out of the water. The tentacle got fatter and fatter until finally, the beast's body emerged out of the water. It is a woman's head, arms and torso attached to a giant octopus’ 8 legs. Thrashing in the water trying to get free, the king picks up the sword and thrusts it into the demon's heart.
The woman is carried to a healer and the demon is hacked into 7x7 pieces that get buried in the 7 distant lands so that it cannot come back to life.
When it is time to have the baby the woman chose a new pool, under the sky up on a rocky cliff face. It is a calm sunny day and all is peaceful. Giving birth in the water, sucking the mucus out of his nose and washing him in the salty water, a great warrior is born.
Being born, not from a joined union but from a coming of age, he is loved by all in the kingdom and raised by the guards.
Some years later the woman goes to visit a neighbouring kingdom. Her father hopes that she will finally choose a warrior to become her husband. She has refused countless offers so far.
In this distant kingdom, she meets the 7th son of the king, a man whose name means sun in her language. She goes to him and explains that a fortune teller told her that she would marry the sun, a man who has an X marked over his heart. He slowly reveals that in a fight an enemy slashed across his chest, which looks like an X. He then tells her that a fortune teller told him that he would marry a woman who has the skies ram on her back. He had never really understood if it was a riddle or the fortune teller had been messing with him.
The woman undoes her dress and turns around showing him her back. Under her left shoulder is a cluster of freckles that are in the exact same arrangement as the ram star constellation.
They happily get married and have 5 strong warrior children together.