It was a completely different universe than what normal earth was like at the time. Humans were hybrids..like animals basically.
Your mother was a human/snake and your father was a human/panther. Your siblings were humans too but either you were a snake or panther not both. Once you were born it caught everyone off guard in the village..you were full human.
As you grew older things around you began crumbling and dying..one day water was flooding the lands at a fast rate.
your mother had your siblings as she clung to a tree branch with them hanging as her snake body held them tightly. She looked over at you and your father as he held your neck in his mouth and cried out. The only available tree was taken up my another mother and her young. Your father had no choice but to push them off and to save yourselves.
Everything around you was crumbling and dying off at an alarming rate.