31_days; June 1
note: So in addition to the name of the character featured in what I posted just before this, there is a semblance of a story.
❧ eden unmade
▶ Original, no actual characters?
"June 1; there exists a world" & PG & 626 words
“If I'm not mistaken, the waters
Finally swallowed up fisher and boat;
And with her singing
The Lorelei did this.”
-The Lorelei, Heinrich Heine
i. eden unmade
Before the world, there was a light, a family of gods and goddesses, and a rock upon which they all lived on. These gods and goddesses were not so much divinities as they were all-powerful supernatural existences, for base things such as instinct and raw emotion are often hard to overcome without thought and soul.
Driven by their own nature, they spread across the rock and created-the sky, the land, the sea, the air, the sound, the voice, the language, the word, the stars, the heart, the everything. All things that exist within this earth were created by the gods and goddesses. However, just as they felt the need to create, they felt just as strongly the need to destroy.
And so they warred with one another; they hated and cursed and damned their family and their creations. One made fire just to burn the land another had wrought, and another sickness to pollute their sibling’s air.
But one of them was more devious than the others. They bided their time by stealing bits and pieces from each and every one of their siblings. They stole and ran, stole and ran, stole and ran till none gave a single thought about it-the actions were just that ordinary. Finally, when this crafty being had a piece of every single god and goddess that existed, they combined the fragments all together into one, single entity.
A human.
They fashioned another human from the first one, then another and another; soon enough, there were enough to populate the entire rock. Humans were a strange new thing to the gods and goddesses, for they had all the power to create and destroy just as they did. Their creator was supremely satisfied with them, mostly because they knew the truth of them.
Humanity did indeed have every power their counterparts had, but there was a key difference: whereas every emotion and instinct was separated into different gods or goddesses, in humans they were smashed and collided into one another. With a physical body, humans simply had no way to control themselves. They did the only thing they understood, the only thing they saw around themselves.
They destroyed.
Humans devoured the creations, everything in sight-the sea evaporated, the sky turned cloudy and gray, words were lost in exchange for cries of hatred. Their creator saw this and realized that soon enough, humanity would destroy the very rock they lived on. A great council was held for the gods and goddesses to decide what to do with them, and a war of instincts and wants raged between them all, not one wanting to back down.
But in the end, they all desired one thing: change.
They selected one human from the population, one whose want for destruction and annihilation wasn’t so strong. They found this human and changed their fate-rather than letting them lead themselves to hatred and agony, they taught them how to control such impulses, to learn how to use them without letting them reign. They were to teach the other humans the same, and granted them long life to actually have the means to do so. Death was absolute however, and when the human was forced to pass on, they promised to bring another human who would know how to control instinct.
They called this girl the Goddess, like one of their own, and gave her the name of Lorelei. Soon afterwards they departed from their earth for planes unbound, to prevent further destruction of their home.
This was when the world was born.
Cycles and centuries and who-knows-how-long later, the time for a new Goddess had arrived. And this world, with all its creation and destruction and most of all change, belonged solely to her.
❧ eden unmade
▶ Original, no actual characters?
"June 1; there exists a world" & PG & 626 words
“If I'm not mistaken, the waters
Finally swallowed up fisher and boat;
And with her singing
The Lorelei did this.”
-The Lorelei, Heinrich Heine
i. eden unmade
Before the world, there was a light, a family of gods and goddesses, and a rock upon which they all lived on. These gods and goddesses were not so much divinities as they were all-powerful supernatural existences, for base things such as instinct and raw emotion are often hard to overcome without thought and soul.
Driven by their own nature, they spread across the rock and created-the sky, the land, the sea, the air, the sound, the voice, the language, the word, the stars, the heart, the everything. All things that exist within this earth were created by the gods and goddesses. However, just as they felt the need to create, they felt just as strongly the need to destroy.
And so they warred with one another; they hated and cursed and damned their family and their creations. One made fire just to burn the land another had wrought, and another sickness to pollute their sibling’s air.
But one of them was more devious than the others. They bided their time by stealing bits and pieces from each and every one of their siblings. They stole and ran, stole and ran, stole and ran till none gave a single thought about it-the actions were just that ordinary. Finally, when this crafty being had a piece of every single god and goddess that existed, they combined the fragments all together into one, single entity.
A human.
They fashioned another human from the first one, then another and another; soon enough, there were enough to populate the entire rock. Humans were a strange new thing to the gods and goddesses, for they had all the power to create and destroy just as they did. Their creator was supremely satisfied with them, mostly because they knew the truth of them.
Humanity did indeed have every power their counterparts had, but there was a key difference: whereas every emotion and instinct was separated into different gods or goddesses, in humans they were smashed and collided into one another. With a physical body, humans simply had no way to control themselves. They did the only thing they understood, the only thing they saw around themselves.
They destroyed.
Humans devoured the creations, everything in sight-the sea evaporated, the sky turned cloudy and gray, words were lost in exchange for cries of hatred. Their creator saw this and realized that soon enough, humanity would destroy the very rock they lived on. A great council was held for the gods and goddesses to decide what to do with them, and a war of instincts and wants raged between them all, not one wanting to back down.
But in the end, they all desired one thing: change.
They selected one human from the population, one whose want for destruction and annihilation wasn’t so strong. They found this human and changed their fate-rather than letting them lead themselves to hatred and agony, they taught them how to control such impulses, to learn how to use them without letting them reign. They were to teach the other humans the same, and granted them long life to actually have the means to do so. Death was absolute however, and when the human was forced to pass on, they promised to bring another human who would know how to control instinct.
They called this girl the Goddess, like one of their own, and gave her the name of Lorelei. Soon afterwards they departed from their earth for planes unbound, to prevent further destruction of their home.
This was when the world was born.
Cycles and centuries and who-knows-how-long later, the time for a new Goddess had arrived. And this world, with all its creation and destruction and most of all change, belonged solely to her.