The Flattenings

To adherents of Bez, the world as it is known by Pups is simply its current version. The previous world-state featured Humans as its sentient species, but they were killed and all the "texture" of the world was flattened after their failure to reach or maintain Bez. Xororx dragged its hand over the Earth and smoothed the world, crushing all mountains and filling all valleys. Xororx then allowed the buried essence of life to bubble to the surface with immense energy, creating a fresh set of mountains, rivers, and life. Many consider the Flattening of the Humans to be not the first or second, but frequently the 5th or 6th time the surface of the Earth was "restarted" by Xororx.