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Creation Myth

Gods are everlasting, not immortal. Their consciousness was, before time had direction.  Just as energy can be altered but not destroyed, so the Gods are illimitable.


Girru (fire), Enki (water), Geb (earth), Maia (life) and Ma’at (harmony):  From the earliest moments, when creation was barely an idea, Ma’at kept balance in all things. When the world was created, it was Ma’at that drew the essence of the other four together and gave them form. And for a time, the world breathed and it was good and it was called Dhara.
But, the four were jealous. Each one thinking it was their aspect that was and should be paramount in the world. For eons Ma’at watched Dhara grow, change and mature while the four argued.


Girru eventually grew tired of the endless squabbling and moved to take direct action against the others. Concentrating her power she took control of the molten fires deep within the belly of Dhara. With the strength of her rage she tore through the crust of the world and sent her essence upon it. From these fiery rivers she rose up enormous golems to march across the land destroying everything in their path.


Maia was the first to react. First he gave consciousness to the great trees of forests, but there was little they could do halt these monsters of fire. With his armies falling quickly to the might of Girru’s golems, Maia turned to the creatures of the world. He called up all those with hard protective shells and thick scaly skin and gave them size and strength to match that of Girru’s creations. These creatures fared much better, but the outcome was still clear. Fire would win this battle.


However, Enki and Geb were not going to risk Girru gaining an upper hand, even if she was not yet directly challenging them. Enki pulled her armies from the great bodies of water and from the snow covered peaks. Battalions of new golems, sparkling blue and green and blinding white rushed to join the fray. Where Girru and Enki fought one to one, there was parity. Where Enki joined Maia, Girru could feel her impending victory slipping away.


What would seal Girru’s fate however, was Geb. His mighty stone creations bent the very earth and blocked her molten rives even as others cast themselves into the rifts and fissures to stop the eruptions. Her fight lost, Girru retreated back into the bosom of Dhara.


Peace, if there was any, was short lived. For almost as soon as Girru retreated, the other three turned on each other. The face of Dhara became a single, monstrous battlefield. The battles waxed and waned. New strategies were developed and new golems created, but the outcome was always the same, stalemate.


For millennia they fought this way, a four way standoff with no victor. Slowly over time Geb and Girru grew closer. Inch by painful inch they came to accept that they would get much further working together then they ever would apart. Through Girru’s fire Geb could fashion golems from stones and metals that he had no power to create on his own. Girru could also erupt beneath the water, creating land and diminishing Enki’s presence. So Geb gave Girru some limited control over his essence and they both became more powerful.


These new armies of earth and fire and their offspring began to decimate the forces Maia. For a time it looked as if Maia would be swiftly defeated. Seeing a fast approach to a certain end Maia pleaded with Enki to form an alliance. Enki, being given a reprieve from the fighting was not moved. Water carved earth like a knife and while she could not be assured of defeating Girru, she did not fear her.


Maia pleaded with her again, telling her of the new golems that Geb had constructed with Girru’s help. Curious, Enki sent out her golems to engage these new foes. What she found shocked her. While her golems could still do some damage, these new creations were stronger then she could have imagined. Enki returned to Maia and agreed to work together. With little they could do to directly combine their essences into new golems, they turned to Dhara instead. At the warmest parts of the planet life and water came together in great profusion. Maia drew up great trees and flowering plants and packed them together so densely that they became difficult to move through. Enki redirected her rivers and storms to feed this new forest and keep it lush with moisture and nearly constant rain.  Here Maia’s creatures could grow without want and attain their full strength.


When Girru and Geb attempted to attack these new strongholds they found themselves repulsed. It was as if the forest was one giant organism that attacked them from all sides. This was the source of Enki and Maia’s power on Dhara and they could not break it.


So, balance was once again achieved as Ma’at knew it must be, but it was another thousand years before the wars would come to an end.


With the realization that they could not disrupt the balance as Ma’at had created it, the four abandoned the battlefield under a temporary truce and looked inward for a time, each searching for a way to finally gain the upper hand. At length these four came to understand that which should have been obvious from the start. It was Ma’at’s power that set the balance for creation and it was Ma’at’s power that maintained it. With this understanding, the four turned on Ma’at herself. No match for their combined strength, Ma’at was shattered, her remnants falling to Dhara.

With the balance she controlled weakened, the four readied their armies to do battle once again. However, upon the world had risen a new form. A creature unlike any they had seen or created. This new being had energy and a conscious much like theirs, infinitesimal in comparison, but alike all the same. The four, engrossed with this new pleasure put aside their war for a time.

Amid this pause the shattered pieces of Ma’at became aware and the opposing forces of balance became separate identities.  These aspects; love, hate, desire, charity, selfishness and compassion were weak, but came to heal themselves by gaining strength from these new beings.

When the four noticed that the remnants of Ma’at were among the mortals, harvesting their energies and meddling in their affairs, they envisioned a new agent. The “Seraph” were created in the most splendid image of these creatures, but stood taller and radiated the aspect of their creators. Through them, the four began a new struggle, a contest for the worship and the souls of these beings. Through them, they saw the strength to finally tip the now precarious balance in their favor.

Description
Creation Myth

Gods are everlasting, not immortal. Their consciousness was, before time had direction.  Just as energy can be altered but not destroyed, so the Gods are illimitable.


Girru (fire), Enki (water), Geb (earth), Maia (life) and Ma’at (harmony):  From the earliest moments, when creation was barely an idea, Ma’at kept balance in all things. When the world was created, it was Ma’at that drew the essence of the other four together and gave them form. And for a time, the world breathed and it was good and it was called Dhara.
But, the four were jealous. Each one thinking it was their aspect that was and should be paramount in the world. For eons Ma’at watched Dhara grow, change and mature while the four argued.


Girru eventually grew tired of the endless squabbling and moved to take direct action against the others. Concentrating her power she took control of the molten fires deep within the belly of Dhara. With the strength of her rage she tore through the crust of the world and sent her essence upon it. From these fiery rivers she rose up enormous golems to march across the land destroying everything in their path.


Maia was the first to react. First he gave consciousness to the great trees of forests, but there was little they could do halt these monsters of fire. With his armies falling quickly to the might of Girru’s golems, Maia turned to the creatures of the world. He called up all those with hard protective shells and thick scaly skin and gave them size and strength to match that of Girru’s creations. These creatures fared much better, but the outcome was still clear. Fire would win this battle.


However, Enki and Geb were not going to risk Girru gaining an upper hand, even if she was not yet directly challenging them. Enki pulled her armies from the great bodies of water and from the snow covered peaks. Battalions of new golems, sparkling blue and green and blinding white rushed to join the fray. Where Girru and Enki fought one to one, there was parity. Where Enki joined Maia, Girru could feel her impending victory slipping away.


What would seal Girru’s fate however, was Geb. His mighty stone creations bent the very earth and blocked her molten rives even as others cast themselves into the rifts and fissures to stop the eruptions. Her fight lost, Girru retreated back into the bosom of Dhara.


Peace, if there was any, was short lived. For almost as soon as Girru retreated, the other three turned on each other. The face of Dhara became a single, monstrous battlefield. The battles waxed and waned. New strategies were developed and new golems created, but the outcome was always the same, stalemate.


For millennia they fought this way, a four way standoff with no victor. Slowly over time Geb and Girru grew closer. Inch by painful inch they came to accept that they would get much further working together then they ever would apart. Through Girru’s fire Geb could fashion golems from stones and metals that he had no power to create on his own. Girru could also erupt beneath the water, creating land and diminishing Enki’s presence. So Geb gave Girru some limited control over his essence and they both became more powerful.


These new armies of earth and fire and their offspring began to decimate the forces Maia. For a time it looked as if Maia would be swiftly defeated. Seeing a fast approach to a certain end Maia pleaded with Enki to form an alliance. Enki, being given a reprieve from the fighting was not moved. Water carved earth like a knife and while she could not be assured of defeating Girru, she did not fear her.


Maia pleaded with her again, telling her of the new golems that Geb had constructed with Girru’s help. Curious, Enki sent out her golems to engage these new foes. What she found shocked her. While her golems could still do some damage, these new creations were stronger then she could have imagined. Enki returned to Maia and agreed to work together. With little they could do to directly combine their essences into new golems, they turned to Dhara instead. At the warmest parts of the planet life and water came together in great profusion. Maia drew up great trees and flowering plants and packed them together so densely that they became difficult to move through. Enki redirected her rivers and storms to feed this new forest and keep it lush with moisture and nearly constant rain.  Here Maia’s creatures could grow without want and attain their full strength.


When Girru and Geb attempted to attack these new strongholds they found themselves repulsed. It was as if the forest was one giant organism that attacked them from all sides. This was the source of Enki and Maia’s power on Dhara and they could not break it.


So, balance was once again achieved as Ma’at knew it must be, but it was another thousand years before the wars would come to an end.


With the realization that they could not disrupt the balance as Ma’at had created it, the four abandoned the battlefield under a temporary truce and looked inward for a time, each searching for a way to finally gain the upper hand. At length these four came to understand that which should have been obvious from the start. It was Ma’at’s power that set the balance for creation and it was Ma’at’s power that maintained it. With this understanding, the four turned on Ma’at herself. No match for their combined strength, Ma’at was shattered, her remnants falling to Dhara.

With the balance she controlled weakened, the four readied their armies to do battle once again. However, upon the world had risen a new form. A creature unlike any they had seen or created. This new being had energy and a conscious much like theirs, infinitesimal in comparison, but alike all the same. The four, engrossed with this new pleasure put aside their war for a time.

Amid this pause the shattered pieces of Ma’at became aware and the opposing forces of balance became separate identities.  These aspects; love, hate, desire, charity, selfishness and compassion were weak, but came to heal themselves by gaining strength from these new beings.

When the four noticed that the remnants of Ma’at were among the mortals, harvesting their energies and meddling in their affairs, they envisioned a new agent. The “Seraph” were created in the most splendid image of these creatures, but stood taller and radiated the aspect of their creators. Through them, the four began a new struggle, a contest for the worship and the souls of these beings. Through them, they saw the strength to finally tip the now precarious balance in their favor.