Before the development of writing, legends, stories and history were recorded in the brains of people.
This was often done in the forms of poetry or songs to make it easier to memorize and recite huge amounts of information.
Language changes fairly rapidly over time, so the poetric scheme of very old stories is obscured, but scholars today believe the oldest books of The Bible were written from even older poetic oral stories.
I Am - poem - was created in 1848.
They - poem - was created in 1917.
Michael - poem - was created in 1800.
America - poem - was created in 1956.
Aku - poem - was created in 1943.
Ariel - poem - was created in 1965.
The Cloud - poem - was created in 1820.
Valerik - poem - was created in 1843.
Beau - poem - was created in 1989.
Oread - poem - was created in 1915.
Submarines - poem - was created in 1917.
Hellas - poem - was created in 1822.