CrimsonTide4
Senior Member posted April 19, 2001 01:14 PM
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A friend sent this to me and I thought it was beautiful and worthy of sharing.
One day, the Greek gods Brotherhood and Sisterhood realized that they were
lonely in the world. They had given birth to various children, but all seemed to forsake their parents. So they decided to join together and create a new breed to fraternal children.
Brotherhood was given the oppurtunity to create the first child. He decided
to take something from the two hemispheres of the world. So he gathered some
"old gold" from the sun and black from the night in Egypt. There he created
his first born, Alpha Phi Alpha. He granted his son wisdom as a gift of love.
Seeing the child that Brotherhood had created, Sisterhood realized that APHIA should not be alone in the world. Sisterhood roamed the world, looking for entities that she could create her first daughter from. On
her journey, she came upon a field of pink flowers surrounded by a fence of green ivy. She knew that these were what she wanted to create her daughter from. Taking the beauty from the flowers and the ivy, Sisterhood
created her first daughter, Alpha Kappa Alpha. As a gift for her daughter,
Sisterhood created a mirror for AKA not only to view her outward beauty but her
inner beauty as well.
Seeing the greatness they had created separately, Brotherhood and Sisterhood
decided that they would join together and give birth to the rest of their children. Their first union brought about the birth of
their twin sons Kappa Alpha Psi and Omega Psi Phi.
These twins from birth were opposites. For one, they were born in two different locations. Kappa had obtained the beauty of his parents while Omega received the strength attibuted to the parents. Though there was much conflict between the two personalities, Kappa and Omega expressed much love for each other.
Brotherhood and Sisterhood decided to give their twin sons gifts as signs of
their personalities. Kappa was given a cane created out of red and white revealing that his beauty only came through blood and sweat. They gave Omega a pair of boots of gold that shined with lightening where ever he stepped and a vest of purple as a sign of his royalty.
To Sisterhood's delight, their next child was a girl who they called Delta Sigma Theta. Delta, like her older bother Omega, gained more of the strength attribute of her parents. Because of this, her parents gave
Delta a red elephant with bright ivory tusks as a sign of her strength.
Shortly after the birth of their daughter Delta, Phi Beta Sigma was brought into this world. His birth occurred as the moon was in its crescent phase. So his parents gave Sigma the sign of the crescent moon. His
peaceful nature was ascribed by the parents to the dove that sang the coming of
his birth and would sing to him throughout the day. Sigma's greatest pride
would come in the form of another sister, Zeta Phi Beta. Sigma and Zeta devloped a
bound that was greater than any of the other siblings. Because of their close relationship, Brotherhood and Sisterhood decided to give their daughter a gift of a white cat as an expression of her peacefulliness.
These proud parents would soon welcome their next and last daughter into
their family. She was given the name Sigma Gamma Rho. She would have an association with her brother Kappa because of the sharing of their birth places. Due to a certain degree of elegance that Gamma Rho exuded, her parents gave her the gift of a well groomed poodle to express this
elegance.
The elite eight would come together to establish their own nation called
the National Pan-Hellenic Council. The children of eight would become
siblings of nine after a long period of time. The last child that Brotherhood and Sisterhood brought into the world would be their baby boy, Iota Phi Theta. To celebrate this addition, they created a centaur as a
gift for their son. The other siblings were somewhat cautious of granting their
brother citizenship, but finally did.
Thus becoming known as the "Divine Nine."
The Greek gods looked down on all their children and say "Well done my children may your light shine in the East forever and may your glory never fade in the West. Never forget that you are all one and from
one."
Tyran White
Kappa Alpha Psi
Spring 2001
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