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How the world was created |
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My mother’s ancestors have handed down the story that I am telling, from generation to generation. This is the story of how the universe, and the earth, came to be. This is the legend my mother told me.
A long, long time ago, when the universe was newly formed, our of the dust of countless shattered suns and stars, a Being emerged. Shrouded in a cloak of glimmering light, she touched half of the newly formed suns and stars, except one and caused them to gather to themselves the dust of their ancestors, the dead stardust. She smiled and laughed and proclaimed to the universe, “I am called Midnight, and I am the Light", she cried to her suns. Then she spun the stardust each sun had collected around themselves into planets around them, so they would not be alone, being so far from the nearest sun.
When the Lady created the planets for the suns, she allowed Shadow to enter the universe. Emerging from the Shadows, a man of Shadows flinched from the raw light of too many suns. The suns the woman hadn't touched, he did, save for the same one the woman had not touched. The stars the man did touch, were destroyed or worse, they became unbearably big, collapsing in on themselves to create very, very small holes in the universe. He looked out over his work and said, “I am called Noon, and I am the Dark."
For many thousands of years after the coming of these strange beings that claimed to be the Light and the Dark, many lesser Light-beings and Dark-beings came into being, by the will of the Light and the Dark. Watching over them all, was the Mother, who was the Creator of the universe, and Midnight and Noon's true creator.
Eventually the Light- and Dark-Beings became the Elemental Children. Some were fiery at heart, others were peaceful, some others were grounded, practical, and wise, and the rest were rather inane and frivolous. Now some of the Children were Dark and some were Light. This created tension and confusion towards the opposite element, where there had once been peace and relaxation.
Now, the Light Lady and the Dark Lord, became aware of their dependence on the others' existence, for we would know nothing if there was an opposite. We cannot know what sound is, if we don't have silence, or we would not know love if we did not have hate, for it would remain a state of constantness, so we would not know anything other than what we experienced. Like we won't know hot from cold if we were always hot and did not know what cold felt like.
Such is the same with Light and Dark. After having to bear a millennium of growing tensions, the Dark One and the Light One, finally acknowledged their need for the other, privately of course, only with the other for company. (The Beings and the universe are unhurried creatures, so creation, wars, and other things take time, for they live very long lives, and time has no meaning to creatures that don't use it).
"Midnight Lady”, the Noon Lord said, “We seem to have become dependent on the existence of the other."
"It seems we have”, the Light One replied, “But it would appear that our Children do not share or understand our wisdom."
"This is so”, The Dark Being agreed warily, “What is it that you propose, Sister?"
"Let us blend our power, Light and Dark, to create a Guardian for the universe. The Guardian will be neither Light nor Dark, and will end the war that will inevitably come to pass between our Children”, the Lady told her Brother.
"You wish to place our power in a new breed of Beings?” The Dark One said incredulously.
"Yes”, the Lady replied.
"No. I don't think I will be doing that”, The Dark Lord replied stubbornly.
After a few millennia of arguing, the Dark One finally agreed with his Sister and they cast a spell that blended their power. After many more thousands of years, the Blendlings emerged. They were Twins, which came as a shock to the Light and the Dark Ones, who only wanted one Guardian to interfere, and the Twins were not given to much destruction, as they understood that their power was far greater than the Elementals put together.
The Twins appeared to be only 8 years old, in the measuring of we fallible mortals, mere infants in the eyes of the other Beings. One Twin was a girl-child, the other a boy-child. Both were far wiser than anyone thought, despite their childish looks. They were identical in every way, except for the fact that the boy-twin had a slightly different build and slightly darker coloring. Eventually the Twins grew up and took on a look of maturity.
So, for a while, the universe was pretty much balanced until a few angry words were exchanged and the two factions of Elemental Children heated up until war broke out. Up to that point the Twins, now called Dawn and Dusk, (for Twilight is when the Light and the Dark touches the skies of the many planets beneath them), had been acting as bridges between the Children, until, disgusted, they disappeared into the core of the universe to find the Mother and a way to stop this childish war once and for all.
When the majority of the universe had been destroyed to the point where the small holes in the fabric of the universe had turned into gaping holes, the Twins returned. Of course, this was a couple thousand millennia, so no big rush.
The Light and Dark Elemental Children had found the one star that had been uncorrupted by Light and Dark, and both factions thought that if they got it first, they would finish the war and banish the other faction for the rest of eternity. It was there the Twins confronted the Elemental Children as they amassed their armies along the sun, for one final, devastating battle.
"Look, Brother”, Dawn sneered with disgust in her voice, which was loud enough for all the Children to hear her, “The Children truly are children for all their age and power."
"This is true, Sister of Mine”, Dusk replied, voice deep with sorrow, "Just look at what their hatred has done to our poor Mother."
The Twins glanced around and saw gaping hole in the Universe and hundreds of the Mother's creations had been destroyed; their bright, proud beauty was no more. The Children wept, as they finally understood what their hatred and selfishness had done to their home, as the Twins looked at them in pity.
"Mother gave you many chances and many, many, many hundreds of thousands of years to peacefully coexist with the other" ,Dawn told the gathered Children.
"She even gave you us" ,added Dusk.
"And now you are even trying to claim the space Mother set aside for us when we have completed our Tasks" ,Dawn continued.
"But now we have no choice anymore" ,Dusk ended Dawn's sentence.
"We of the Mother's creation, Banish you", the Twins proclaimed together, "To coexist in a place where Mother can not be harmed!"
The Twins linked their hands, touched the Last Star, and summoned the Stardust it needed to create a system of planets made to contain the Children. They formed nine planets and many moons, and when they were done, the Children stared in awe at the beauty the Twins had created. But the Twins were not quite done yet.
"We Banish You" ,they said together, "We strip you of your immortality. We peel away your masks, and your hide will match your hearts!" They continued. The Children felt themselves shift into the forms of what we now know as animals. Still the Twins were not done.
"We make a Home for the Light and the Dark", they cried above the groans of pain from the Children. The Twins raised their linked hands and the third planet they formed was lush and green bright with health and vitality.
"And now, We send you Home!" The Twins finished with a great SHOUT! And they dropped their hands with a jerk. As they finished their work, the newly formed creatures fell to the lush new earth and where the fire elementals fell, they dried the earth around them, and created sand and red desert. Where the water elementals fell, great oceans and lakes and rivers formed around them depending on how many fell in one spot. Where the earth elementals fell, forests and trees sprouted where their feet touched. And where the air elementals fell, great flat plains formed.
The Twins descended from the Heavens of the Universe where they walked the plains were made. They looked at their creation with critical eyes, when the Light Lady and the Dark One appeared, and asked the Twins in despair why they had banished their Children.
"We created you to keep the peace" ,the Dark One, Noon, and the Light One, Midnight, cried, "Why did you banish your brethren?"
"We were created by the Mother, the Universe's creator, just as you were" ,Dawn began.
"But you failed in your task to have your Children coexist in a peaceful manner, and you failed to protect Mother" ,Dusk continued for his sister.
"Since you failed, and our task is complete" ,The Twins said together, "We must keep you here with your Children, and us."
As they spoke, a vast power overcame them for Beings and they took root to the ground as trees. Midnight, the Light Lady, became a vast birch tree forest, to let the light in to those who have been without it for too long. Noon, the Dark Lord, became a fir tree forest, providing darkness to those who have been consumed in too much light, and needed to hide from it, for just a little while. Dawn, the girl-child of the Guardians, became a great redwood tree, and Dusk, the boy-child of the Guardians, became a massive oak tree that intertwined itself with the redwood.
The Twins' tree-forms stands between the birch forest and the fir forest, forever guarding the sacred place where only the dead may go. It is said that if you are blessed enough to replenish your soul beneath the leaves of the twined oak and redwood, that your soul will stay in that sacred grove and it becomes a Guardian for the grove. All humans are descended from the Stardust Elemental Children, and like the light and dark, they come in many guises.
 crypticxguide · Thu May 17, 2007 @ 07:44pm · 0 Comments |
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