Creation Myth
The Infinite Well and the First Spirits
Before and after all things, there was and is the Infinite Well, whom some call Kynos. Kynos foamed as an ocean of Chaos, eager to express itself—and it did; from the Chaos came the First Spirits. The First Spirits came out of the well by the path of kha, which is the will of Kynos and the force which drives all things. As of yet, there was no time; all things existed at once and in the same place.
The Creation of Cymur and Balor
In the beginning, the First Spirits were confused and knew no direction, for all places were one. This did not satisfy Kynos, so from himself, by the path of kha, he drew two Identities—Here and There—and gave them names: Here, he named Cymur, and There, he named Balor. Kynos gave Cymur the power to pull, and Balor the power to push, and so drew a path for the First Spirits to move in orbit between them. Thus space was created, and from space, time.
The Creation of Morhiag
And so a system was formed. Though it was perfect, it was not complete. The First Spirits were eternal, existing forever once they came out of the Well; there was not enough room for all the Spirits to exist at the same time. So Kynos drew from himself another Identity, which he named Morhiag. Morhiag imposed limitations on the First Spirits, governing over the turns each must take, and at which speed each must move. And so reality was allowed change, and began to move in cycles.
The Creation of Death, Matter and Energy
Time passed, and the first gods began to grow and age. With time, the gods gained knowledge and understanding from the First Spirits, and made their own opinions of them. Cymur and Balor gathered Spirits into Doctrines, each side invariably pitched against the other, creating contradictions and agreements.
Eventually, seeing that the cycles themselves were eternal, Morhiag became unsettled. In secret, she dipped her hand into the Well and drew forth a new Spirit. It was a great fang, and she named it ‘death’. With the fang in hand, she waited in the space between Cymur and Balor for the First Spirits to pass by. When they came, she picked out one quarter, according to her preference, and slew them. The corpses she named ‘matter’. Another quarter she slew, and they became ‘energy’.
At first, Cymur and Balor were angry with their sister, but when they saw the possibilities of matter and energy, they were pleased. For these, they made more rules, but left Morhiag to govern over the new universe.
The Creation of Ylessa
Although the mind of Morhiag was vast, there were so many different things that needed to be governed that Morhiag could not remember them all. Dipping again into Kynos, she drew out another god, and named her Ylessa. By the path of kha, the will of Kynos, Ylessa came into reality with the desire to make beauty, and was a servant and daughter to the other gods.
Her first act was to create for each a sphere, a planet from which each could rule: for Cymur, first, she made a great, golden temple; Balor was gifted a slightly lesser one of shining bronze; for Morhiag, a barren house of frozen silver; for herself, a lesser moon with pale, blue waters. Between these, she set fields of stars of diamonds and rubies and amethyst and sapphires, all to adorn the heavens so that the gods may dwell in a pleasant place.
The Creation of Aagos and Life
Ylessa made another space between the houses of the gods—a house for First Spirits. This house, she called Aagos, and brought many Spirits there to live. In this house, the spirits began to take shapes, and gained the ability to combine themselves and reproduce. She named these spirits ‘fathers’ and ‘mothers’. She put them into the shapes of trees, grasses, blooming plants, and all manner of fish and beasts and fowl—and thus Life was created, and was given the ability to continue of its own accord. Morhiag watched over these also, and guided the fang of death to where she thought it was needed.
The Creation of Sykala
Cymur, fearing that the sheer number of things that now lived were too many, ordered from Ylessa one final act before she was allowed to rest: the creation of some system or order. She bowed to the Elder God’s request, and split herself in half: one part to stay and rule, another part to go and rest. The ruling part was named Sykala, and was made Guardian of the Order of Nature. Ylessa, having fulfilled all her duties, retired to her house in leisure.
The Creation of People
Eventually, the mother and father spirits gave birth to a very new kind of life, a kind that was both soul and form at once. These Sykala named ‘people’. The people amazed the gods with their ability to not only grow and reproduce, but create as the gods could; they pulling things from the Well into reality. After a while, there was not only one kind of people, but four; in the beginning, they all lived peacefully amongst each other.
