Modern Myth - How the Otherworld Came To Be

 Part 2 in my series on modern myths is looking at how the Other came to be in our reality, as it has been relayed to me. 

Let me emphasize that this is MY OWN gnosis, and should be taken as such

View from Bri Leith in Ardagh, 2018, pic by me

"After reality was made, and the song and dance of the stars was in motion, and after That Which Is All birthed Life and Decay, the sacred and the básdan, many other forms of life came to be, both grand and subtle. Worlds were born, and with them various layers were added to reality, so that the human world came to be and adjacent to it the Otherworld - or perhaps that was the other way around. Each anchored the other, and each resonated with the other, so that they were separate but joined, like the moon circling the earth.

Life flourished in the various worlds and realities and dimensions and this life was diverse and wide-ranging. But each world was divided form the other, separated by space or perception or energy or reality. Some beings which existed in more fluid realms could move between these worlds like a bird that could walk or fly or swim at its own will, but most beings were bound to the world or reality they existed within in, particularly if they had a physical, tangible form. The worlds existed and the life within them flourished and grew.

In the Otherworld those beings who had been Second in creation spun tales and molded their world and created new beings who were fashioned from primal reality and starlight and song, guided by Life without Decay's hand. They were immortal and if a physical form was lost it could be recreated or the consciousness could return unchanged in a new form. They in turn created other new beings and discovered the joys of physical bodies and birthed new generations, living in the Otherworld and learning how to read the flows of energy and life, how to shape those flows, how to make their own will manifest. But eventually they grew bored and restless.

The básdan, those created by the power of Decay also had a realm, a place that was inverse to Life, wherein all was perpetually unmade. An Unworld. Their magics were also subtle and overt, unweaving the strands of fate and time, pulling apart that which was so that they could push the fractured pieces into new forms that suited them. 

The earthly world existed between these two and included both Life and Decay, both birth of the physical and true death, wherein a consciousness that lost physical form lost cohesion. Some in the Otherworld who were bored and restless found ways to make bridges between the two worlds, as some of those who were in the Unworld found ways to pull apart the energy which separated the worlds to travel to the earthly world. Each began influencing and shaping the earthly world, and each in turn was influenced and shaped by it, all different voices in the universal chorus. 

Bridges once built can be travelled by those coming or going, and pathways between worlds ran in both directions."