Several thousand years after Fluffy and Muffy met, the colorbears' culture had advanced considerably. Their language had more than two words and they had started to study the sciences. (In spite of all these advances, the colorbears remained -- and remain -- not extremely intelligent.) The first science, other than Muffy and Fluffy's interesting meteorology, was astronomy, because the colorbears thought if they could understand something as far away as the stars, they could understand things where they lived, such as the honeytrees, and what to do if an evil noncolorbear came along and broke off the scoop from a perfectly good honeytree.
Before explaining the theory of astronomy that was developed, the noncolorbears must first be explained. Sometime after Fluffy and Muffy met, the noncolorbears stopped using drugs, but they mostly remained evil due to the changes from several thousand years of using drugs. Their intellectual capacities, however increased greatly after they stopped using drugs, and they actually became smarter than the colorbears (wow -- big accomplishment.) Because of their new-found intelligence, they were revered by the colorbears. As the noncolorbears became smarter and smarter, but remained evil, the colorbears began to think of them as gods.
The colorbear scientific community, which included such great minds as Linus Pawling and Albeart Bearstein, finally decided that the noncolorbears controlled the movements of the heavenly bodies.
Their theory of the sun is quite interesting, although not
founded in any experimental evidence. The sun is actually a
specialized noncolorbear whose rays are purple and blue and have
white dots. The sun, called T'Unleic, is mostly green with black
splotches. The green areas give off purple rays and the black
areas give off black rays. The black rays are short and thin and
generally useless to the bear population of notearth. The
noncolorbear god, T'Caffein, harnesses the long, thick, purple
rays and places them into a special container. Then he changes
the purple rays into gold rays and sends them to notearth. The
spots are the spots that all the colorbears see when they
stare into the sun (see the myth below about them.)
T'Caffein gets power to change the green rays to gold through the sacrifices of gold honey made by the colorbears. They take several baskets of honey into a clearing and toss the honey into the air. The honey does, of course, fall back onto them, but they believe the waste is justified because T'Caffein is able to catch some of it. T'Unleic, who serves the noncolorbears because he is one of them, rises, falls, and gives his rays under the direction of T'Sdanreia, T'Caffein's sister, who attaches a rope to T'Unleic and drags him with her. The moon, T'Laneic, is controlled by yet another sister, T'Beveil, who as a slightly naughty younger sister, plays tricks with the moonts light and must always lag behind T'Sdanreia.
The stars are controlled by the uncle of T'Caffein and his sisters, whose name is T'Martoneis. T'Martoneis controls all the stars with a red string, and hooks them together with a white string.
The myth of the Red Spots. In vague evolutionary references, the colorbear history mentions an ancestor of both the colorbears and noncolorbears, the xemplins. According to popular myth, the xemplins began to die out as their descendants became prominent, and they were afraid of being forgotten (which was not unlikely, with the not-extremely-intelligent colorbears and the drugged-out noncolorbears.) The xemplins left notearth to live with T'Unleic. They do not wish the inhabitants of notearth to forget them, which is why looking into the sun causes beings to see red spots, even for a few minutes after looking away.
This is Cuffy on the skateboard a noncolorbear sold him. Cuffy insists on wearing his favorite hat for this photo even, though it looks very silly and it would fall off if he ever tried to move the skateboard with it on.
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