One thousand years ago, our forefathers and chief prophets of the faith of Oceanism began to realize and document their spiritual discoveries in the form of musical renditions. From what is best documented, these depictions spread relatively far with moderate public acclaim, and would lay the foundation for the system of beliefs that would later make up the core aspects of Oceanism.
 
 
The earliest full and intact version of one of these recordings dates back to one of the decades leading up to the 21st century, taking the moniker “The Mollusk”. Its creators, the congregation known as Ween — meaning to ponder or to hope — are essentially known to have been the sole group responsible for charting all of the fundamental principles of the faith.
 
 
The Ween congregation is known to have consisted of eight prophets — David Dreiwitz, Claudius Coleman II, Glenn McClelland, Andrew Weiss, Marcus Kramer, and Gordon Rodnick, alongside chief prophets Micheal Melchiondo II and Aaron Freeman. In their completed forms, Freeman acted as the primary orator in the transmission of the messages presented in these early renditions of Oceanistic ideals. Other important chronicles would follow the guise of The Mollusk, such as White Pepper and Québec, also spearheaded by the oration of Freeman. However, the concepts presented in the earliest would prove most critical to the development of Oceanism as a faith.
 
 
 
 
From the mid-21st century onward, the fate of the classical Oceanistic renditions and the original eight prophets would fall into obscurity, but not to the abyssal clutches of time. As humanity grew technologically, so would the teachings of the original eight prophets. By the conclusion of the terraforming of Mars in the year 2157, a mere century after the ideals of Oceanism had been presumed dead, the opposite could not have been closer to reality.
 
 
Cornelius Freeman III, a descendant of chief prophet Aaron Freeman, had been one of the many head scientists present at the grand opening of inhabitable Mars. His influence as a scientist as well as an enlightened scholar and orator opened the door for the first widespread adoption of Oceanism, on Martian soil. Taking the fragmented pieces of history and teachings salvaged from his ancestor, Cornelius shaped them into a proper ideology with a basic set of commandments and rules of thumb, echoing back to Chinese Confucian ideals of centuries past.
 
 
Oceanism quickly grew on those willing enough to embrace it, sparking its introduction as a faith relevant to human society. As humanity expanded outward to the vast reaches of space, so did Oceanism. War, uprisings, and social struggles did not damage the faith, but rather popularized it through its existence as an alternative to the bleaker forms of existentialism that arose in these hard times. Struggles came and went, but the ideals of Oceanism remained alive. It is through this hope and perseverance that the teachings of Ween continue to grow and prosper after almost a millennia.