Once upon a time, long before the parts of man and woman came together to form a whole, each part was scattered across the land where they lived to grow in diversity and number so they might one day make as many men and women as we have today. In one of these distant lands lived the feet. Left feet and right feet lived together, dancing day and night. These dances were not for fun, but for prizes and prestige. Each pair of feet hoped to win the ultimate prize of being the honored pair of the first and most important man to live.

In this land of feet, they were paired by left and rights, as it was believed the two would create the perfect balance required in order to dance. These dances were indescribably beautiful, each dancing pair better than the last. It was always the left that led the right, the right always compromising to the left foot's decision.

Even if one is a foot, one cannot constantly live in a relationship where it is the partner that always chooses what will be done. Soon it came to be that right feet grew angered with the left feet, who were far too domineering. They threatened to strike if they were not given the privilege of leading a dance. Left feet, used to their power and dominance, did not wish to give up this power.

At first, the left feet tried to dance with each other in the competitions before the great gods. They could not dance in harmony and unison, each attempted to skip one way while the other hoped another direction. It was madness and disgrace. The high gods became displeased and demanded that the feet reconcile their differences so they could once again dance to please the gods.

In the mean time, the right feet had continued their dancing practice. Unlike the left feet, who could not work with one another, right feet found they were perfect partners. Each pair worked in perfect harmony, skipping and hopping together without objection or fighting about who's turn it was to dance next. One of the high lords above noticed their practice and was pleased by it. However, the others despaired of what could be done with the unruly left feet.

While the dances of the right feet were superb, many became disenchanted because there was no variety or spice to the dances as there was when they danced as left-right pairs. It was not long before many of the left feet, sad to be so out of favor with the high gods, begged their right-foot partners to return and dance in the competitions.

Sadly, there were left feet who were too proud to ask their partners to return and right feet that were too happy with their new-found dance. These over-proud left feet were doomed to forever be the feet of clumsy and untalented dancers while the right feet, favored by the single god who noticed them, were transported to a land of their own, never to be burdened with bodies of men and women and always to dance before their god.