This is going to be part of a new series I'll be working on featuring my own take on sacred stories. I'm starting, appropriately enough, with the idea of creation.
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| full moon on the autumn equinox over Eyjafjörður, Iceland, 2018 |
"No one who speaks knows how reality came to exist. Some say that it always was, is, and will be; a constant presence in which all other things find a place. But it is said among the oldest and wisest that That-Which-Was-And-Is birthed the stars, and the stars birthed the planets and all other cosmic beings. The stars also sang the First Song, the primal song, and danced the First Dance which set the pattern of all things. We understand that all things come from the stars and that they empower and fuel the cycles existence relies on to continue.
From the First Song and First Dance came the greatest power, That Which Is All, the sentient spirit of existence, who is the song, and the dance, and all of manifest reality and the power that moves behind it. And from Her* came the two sides of all things, growth and decay, her children. They added their voices to the First Song so that a harmony and melody was achieved in the chorus and through this new song all sentient beings were created, filling the nascent worlds with depth and contrast. Each layer of new beings created and destroyed and shaped the reality around them, adding to the song with their own unique music.
And so it has continued since, voices rising and falling as they weave into the song across time. And we in our small ways follow the guidance of the stars and sing and dance the great pattern to strengthen our connection to them and their power within us."
*I'm choosing to use she/her pronouns here because that's how the story came to me but I believe this Power is truly beyond the concept of gender.
This gave me chills! Do you know the cultural origin of the story as you heard it? So many of the creation concepts have similar archetypes and concepts that I find fascinating.
ReplyDeleteI'd hesitate to give it a cultural context as its something told to me by my Other People. they are grounded in a specific culture but this story isn't reflective of anything I'm aware of from that
DeleteThis story is strangely similar to Tolkien's creation myth in The Silmarillion, the Ainulindalë. Considering his fascination with Faërie and Elves, perhaps there was some inspiration coming from the Other People when he wrote it.
DeleteI could hear music in my head, note after note, being added....rising, falling.....a beautiful chorus of time.
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