Time passed by. Year after year the people in Talaina lived their lives. They counted the years as they went along, but there was more they could count. Like the distance between their two villages. The number of people in each village, with which they had actually started. But they learned more than counting of [...]
Ancient tales recount the day that nothing was invented. Soon after another invention was done too, which meant a change in the way numbers were written. But first to the invention of nothing. Both villages that existed now had their own thinkers. Two years had passed already since the group that wanted to travel further [...]
And as times progressed, the people of Talaina lived a happy life. They had built several houses, half as many houses as there were people at first. But soon they decided that in the times when it was wet, they did not want to be all separated in their own houses, and they could not [...]
View a full list of all numbers (as they are called and later written, and their symbols) as they are used in Talaina, up to 155, compared to our decimal numbers.
Counting was a fun thing to the thinkers. They tried counting other things too. For example, the leaves that were lying on the ground in a specific area. That could be quite a few, so they would get interesting numbers. For example, once one of them got the result of twelvetwelvetwelvetwelvefive. That was very difficult [...]
And indeed, as the days passed by, the builders found several other ways of getting the pieces of wood to be where they wanted them to be. They used things to shape the wood, things to make multiple pieces of wood stick together and as they worked they found uses for more and more things. [...]
It seemed quite natural that they would wake up the next morning, they had not thought otherwise before they went to sleep the previous night. Yet, they were still slightly surprised that it had actually happened the next morning. They now saw the sun standing at a new place, it was actually opposite where it [...]
After a period of time which they decided to call an hour, walking over stuff which was soft, and had a colour they decided to call green, the reached the place where they could do something. The soft green stuff had a name too, they were sure. It just took a little while to realise [...]
“It is time for a start. The start of this new land. And we shall call it Talaina.” Those were the first words ever spoken on the new land, which from now on was to be called Talaina. A small group of people was standing there, they did not know where they were. They did [...]
