(Episode: Atavus) The shaqarava was an aspect of the Kimera that was later passed on to the Taelon race. The closest word they had was from Earth's Latin term "Atavus". (Episode: Summit) They also stated that they had worked hard to evolve from their primitive atavistic roots to the point that they had expunged the name of their ancestral race from their language leaving no term that could be used to name them. Thus, the Taelons were formed when they managed to extend their life span by a factor of two hundred but at the cost of their non-Taelon brethren who formed into the Jaridians with greatly reduced life cycles. He was the leader of an immortality cult who found a way to isolate core energy and use it to extend their own lives. One of the forebears of the Taelons who was considered the closest approximation to a religious figure was the Atavus known as Ramaz who would become mythic as well as a close approximation to the Devil. After this event, the newly emerged Taelon race turned on the Kimera and exterminated most of them leaving a single survivor who was imprisoned. The Taelons themselves claim that the Kimera were their evolutionary ancestors and that they conquered them in a war of genetic assimilation through which the Taelon race evolved. (Episode: The Summit) The proto-Taelons and Jaridians eventually began to separate under different evolutionary lines which left both deprived of vital evolutionary tools and diversity in their DNA. Around eight million years ago, there existed the Atavus who were the precursor species to both the Taelons and the Jaridians before both races began alternate evolutionary paths.