Yahgahn
Creation Story
A
Yahgahn Fable
A long, long time ago, Moiulainas Tébalas
(The Mother of All Creation) suddenly awoke for the first time and found
herself giving birth.[1]
Her first-born child was born in a large mass of worms, called First Worms. The
whole child that was in this mass was named Krainah, or Time. Krainah hardly
stayed long enough to say good-bye before She went out into the empty universe
to be Time.
Yet Moiulainas Tébalas was not alone,
for the First Worms wriggled and writhed and multiplied. It was not long before
one of these First Worms changed form. This Worm shape-changed to become the
Deity We know as Grah’Bahn, the Deity of Life. Upon awakening into the world,
Grah’Bahn danced and sang with joy, her joy filling the empty universe with
Love, Joy, Acceptance, and Understanding. When finally her dancing and singing
rested for a while, She stopped, looked around, and wondered at the emptiness.
Soon, She spoke.
“Mother, why is it empty here?” She
asked.
“My Child, it is empty here because
Creation has just now started. We have just begun to fill the emptiness. Do you
have any ideas for filling it, My Child?”
Grah’Bahn thought for a while.
Finally, though, She thought of something. “Mother! We should fill it with
energy and matter! Fire and stone and metal and other things!”
“Then We should work together to fill
it, My Child.”
So Grah’Bahn sent three of the First
Worms into the womb of Moiulainas Tébalas, and She became pregnant again. The
next two born were Yinianata and Morphwaan, the conjoined twin Deities of Fire;
Yinianata was the creative side of fire while Morphwaan was the destructive
side. Together, though, they went out into the emptiness and began filling the
sky with fire, with stars.
The third child of Moiulainas Tébalas
and Grah’Bahn was Kusunia, Deity of Rock, Metal, and Matter. She looked out at
the starry universe and sung out with joy. She, too, barely stayed for long
before She went out into the universe and became the matter of the universe. It was Kusunia who made everything that is the Universe, though
She did not organize it. All was unordered. She had much matter, or “building
blocks” one could say, available for the deities to use, but She never
organized any of it except to make the Foundations of the Universe. It was
Tahrah-Taynah, deity of creativity, who started building the Earth and other
planets. She called Grahbahn, Thurr, Ahgoi, Ahn’Dahn, and anyone else who might
want to help out to come and help her create. Ahg'Tahrah wrote a beautiful,
intricate poem and illustrated it. Then, after writing the poem, She began to
sing it. Her voice was beautiful, and other music began to accompany her while
She sang, for Grah’Bahn and many others began to sing too. As the melody went
on in the background, Ahntahncess became the moon(s), and Grahbahn made the
planets. Then the Nature Deities decided to start getting to work. Yet before
they could do anything, Morshauna turned Ahg'Tahrah's song into a beautiful
lullaby, and these Deities drifted into sleep. Then Morshiinin and Ahg'Tahrah
began to sing together to fill the Council's minds with beautiful, colorful
dreams. The Nature Deities dreamt of oceans and rivers and lakes and trees and
forests and bugs and birds to eat the bugs and things to eat the birds and larger
predators and fruit and mountains and the air and the wind and rain and the cry
of children playing gaily in the rain on a beautiful day, and all sorts of
wonderful things. These beautiful Deity Dreams drifted out of the minds of the
Deities into the world to take root as "real" things. Reality and
dreams blurred as one. Ohniahnis had such
a reality-dream, as did Ahn'Dahn,
and so did a group
of Deities trying to find out who is the fastest. And all the people and
things in reality also helped to create the dream of reality. The music played
on, and will forever play on, for it is an intricate, beautiful song that will
go on as long as there is life in the Universe, for the song of Ahg'Tahrah
keeps life going; life, the living dream, is kept alive by this wonderful song,
and other deities can affect this dream, as they all dreamt it together. We all
live in harmony with that song, no matter what We do with Our lives, for it is
the Harmony of Life Itself. It is the Great Harmony, and We are all the
creators of Our own reality.
Yet that is not the
end. It goes on. Life is a struggle to remember what the soul has chosen to
forget, so the soul may experience itself by exploring what it is not, and
denying what it is not. Up to the point We will come to here, all but one deity
had been born. Yet a long time ago by Our reckoning, the first Master realized,
remembered that they, too, are Divine. That We are all Divine. With the first
person to realize their Divinity and see reality as the illusion it is,
Kohraindehr, the Deity of the All was born. And suddenly, all the darkness of
ignorance had a new meaning, and the Universe knew the truth. And the
Collective Consciousness of the All, Kohraindehr, let it be known that She had
always existed, that She had always been speaking to All of Us, always. We just
have to choose to listen.
But Creation is
always going, and this is not the end. It is never the end. Creation is always
continuing, and We will forever be creating and living. All ways and for ever,
We are the Creators of Our Reality.
[1] The Birth of All Creation is an event similar to the Big Bang. All events from there symbolize the organization of matter and energy.