Creation Myth

Today I was instructed as part of my literature to write a creation myth as my main assignment of the week. I just thought I would share ;). There was a time when the universe stood alone. There were many planets and stars, and the massive black and blue skies where they rested happily; and each had a special purpose. There were large planets, and there were small planets with rings, and there were many moons orbiting the planets, and some planets orbited others. In one particular solar system, there was a large fiery planet known by all the others as the sun, and the other planets circled the sun, and were brothers and sisters and had their own moons and rings and other fancy things. But the sun stood on its own, and its brothers and sisters were often too busy with their own moons to bother with the sun, and so the sun became lonely. Now there was a man and his son who lived among the stars with infinite power, and they came one day upon the sun in its lovely, lonely existence and decided to take pity. The man created a planet to keep company with the sun, and the planet was covered in water and fish, and many sea creatures that needed the sun’s fire to keep them warm. The sun was delighted at the new planet, and immediately began its task of keeping watch over the planet which it nicknamed “Earth”. And the man was pleased and went his way, but the son stayed on to watch. And as he watched he observed the sun becoming tired of its job as guardian to the earth. Now the son had some embellishment ideas of his own, and so he decided to take things into his own hands, and he began to draw land up from under the sea to cover parts of the earth. Then he created animals to go on the land, and some animals that enjoyed both the land and the sea created by his father. And he created vegetation, plants and fruits to feed the animals both on land and sea. And some of the animals ate the plants which he created, and fewer were carnivorous, and kept the other animals from overpopulating the land. Then came a woman one day while he was working the details and creating more things on earth; and the woman was awed with the beauty of his handiwork and stayed on with him there. But as time wore on the sun became more and more tired with his job of keeping the earth on his own, and the woman saw this and found it concerning. And so, one endlessly sunny day, a day without true night although the son had gone to take his evening rest, the woman was by a river the son had recently made when she found a smooth round blue stone which caught her fancy and she dove down deep under the water to retrieve it. Looking on the pretty stone reminded her of the ragged exhaustion the sun had been experiencing, and she turned the beautiful stone over in her hands. Then she stood on the shore, gently raising her hand to her mouth and blew the stone far up into the sky beside the sun. As she continued to blow upon it the stone grew in size and illuminated, until it could be seen clearly from the earth. The woman instructed the sun and moon that they were to work with one another, the sun to light the world half the time and the moon the other half. The moon’s light was much dimmer than the sun’s, and when the man awoke from his sleep it was very dark, and the small newly made moon shone down cheerfully, eagerly helping its newfound partner. The man was enchanted with the idea, and the two watched the stars came out, gleaming brightly beside the new moon. And the son decided that the earth’s work was done, but the two stayed on forever, and had many children that stayed on as well, taking loving care of the planet and its animals and plants, as well as enjoying both the sun and the moon. The sun, with its new friend and helper, and the earth with its people to look after never grew bored again.