PROTOGENESIS
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1. In the beginning a Force created the Universe, and the universe was infinite order and contained infinite wisdom. Yet it was a perpetual child, it did not truly understand itself. From the infinite point of order the universe chose to become chaos, the manifestation of its desire to understand itself. It grew and expanded and defined its existence. And thus it was so.

2. Amidst the void, the Earth was a formless waste of dust, fire and ferocious winds. Energy moved about its surface. The fires cooled, the flames extinguished, and the winds subsided. The new sun rose above the horizon as the skies cleared, the heavens above revealed upon the surface. The light became day, and the darkness night. Thus was the morning and the evening of the first day.

3. There became a division between the circle of the land and the heavens above. A separation between the firmament and firmament formed and land resided between the waters of the lower firmament, and the waters of the upper firmament. Thus was the morning and evening of the second day.

4. And the waters gathered and surrounded the land. The waters became seas. And the Earth saw that it was good, and the Earth said, let the grass bring forth, and the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit, whose seed is contained within. The one became many, the very small became the very large. And it was so. Thus was the morning and evening of the third day.

5. There were two great lights. The light to rule the day, and the light to rule the night. Each light's force acted upon the land and the waters. The light of day warmed the land and brought life to the surface, and the light of the night set the seas into ebb and flow. The light of the night was accompanied by the lesser lights of distant lands and suns. Thus was the morning and evening of the forth day.

6. And the through the wisdom of the Earth, it created every living creature that move, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and from the waters crawled the creatures of the land, and let them crawl about its surface. The Earth proclaimed, be fruitful and multiply. And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.

7. There arose the great monsters of the land, the sea, and the sky, and they dominated the world and filled every corner of it for a dynasty of 300,000 fold millennia. Yet their fate was written upon the pillars of a great stone cast from heaven's gate abreast the Earth's belly. Darkness filled the skies, and fire rained down upon them, and the era of these creatures had arrived at its conclusion.

8. The Earth healed from its wound, and the beasts that had hidden from the calamity came to see the sun's rays once again. And so again a new age embarked and the land was green again and the Earth brought forth every new living creature of its kind to walk upon the land and swim in the seas. The surface became host to a multitude of living forms. Each living form lived and adapted to its environment and beget generation upon generation, and as the Earth changed, so too did these creatures. Ages past, and the dynamic equilibrium maintained itself.

9. There came a creature that lived amidst the gardens and forests, everything the Earth had to offer was at its hands. Within its fingers it could grasp everything around it and it foraged upon the ground and upon the trees gathering its food.

10. He was at first a solitary entity, yet he saw the potential of the things around him. He felt that he was different than his siblings but he did not know why. He was known as, "udum." Thus was the sound his mother used to call him forth. He was alone until another was born in his group. He found that she was one like himself, they shared a similar rib deep inside themselves. She was called, "eeeeev." Together they grew and she became his mate.

11. They lived in a paradise, the food he wanted was around them, they were protected from all harm by the solidarity of their group. They drank of the water of the river. They grasped and ate the fruits of the trees, and enjoyed the solitude and comfort of their existence, yet there was a tree whose fruit they could not reach. His mate craved the fruit even though there were many other fruits for her to eat. It was a new craving that importuned her. One day, she saw the fruit that was too high for her to grasp and consume, and she told herself, "you can not eat of this fruit for you will fall down hard and become hurt." Yet the fruit remained beckoning.

12. A voice came into her mind, "You can take that fruit. You just have to use something to get it." And so she looked around and saw a branch. And the mighty branch broke with the power in her grasp as she wrapped her fingers and thumb around it. With the branch in hand, she poked at the fruit hanging precariously on its unreachable perch, and upon the twelfth strike, the fruit fell upon the ground. And she ate of the fruit. Having listened to the voice that told her about the branch, she could now eat when others could not.

13. She brought the stick to her mate, and showed him how to use it. She placed it in his hand and he understood. She brought him back to the tree that no one could eat from, and he struck the fruit and it too fell upon the ground. And so he ate the fruit.

14. They showed the stick to the group but the group did not listen, they just wanted the fruit they brought back with them. And soon the group would wait for them to cast the fruit down and seize it, before the two who had the branch could feed upon it. And so this angered the two, and each of them grasped their branches and struck their enemies hard. With the fury their mighty sticks they delivered a punishing blow and their aggressors fell and retreated in the midst of their power.

15. They had eaten of the tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil and so were cast from the group, and left to wander in the wilderness. The forest, river, and the paradise were lost. Every time they approached the forest the group would scream at them with vengeful rebuke, and attempt to beat them with their hands, yet they did not have the branch and they did not know how to get the high fruit. And with the branch they would have to find a way to survive.

16. And so the creature became a man. Thus was the morning and evening of the sixth day.

17. Upon the Seventh Day, the Earth had accomplished all that needed to be done, and it saw that all that it had created was good. And it came to rest from all the work it had made and left all the beasts of the field, and the growing plants of the soil for man to have dominion over and keep anew.

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