Original Creation Myth
Uploaded by specialK on Nov 24, 2006
Long ago the Goddess of Beginnings gave birth to two sons, the first she named Surya and the last Shyam. Surya and Shyam were very close at first, but as they grew older they began to grow apart. Shyam was handsome and strong – he was looked up too by all his peers; Surya was a genius, he knew everything there was to know but he was very reserved and wasn’t well known throughout his homeland. Surya wanted to prove himself; he wanted to do something that Shyam had never done, something brilliant and wild. Surya spent many days locked up in his dwellings, formulating his plan. When Surya finally emerged he went to his father to ask his permission to carry out this plan, and his father, after a few hours of careful thought and intense persuasion from Surya, agreed.
Surya gathered the soil of his homeland into his palm, and with both hands he compressed and molded it into a sphere. He threw his arms up into the air, tossing the sphere of soil into the Cosmos, were it grew and grew into a land which he later named Earth. Surya leapt to his land and looked it over carefully; his land would need habitants but how should he make them? Finally, Surya drew blood from his wrist and from that blood he made man, and from the man’s blood he made woman to keep the man company and to produce new men. Surya named these beings humans, the humans would become the top of the food chain, they would control and make their own destinies. The humans would need many things to survive, Surya decided, so he rested for awhile before beginning again.
He wiped his hand across his forehead, and slung the sweat onto the ground, creating the great oceans and rivers of Earth that would hydrate and sustain his humans. He inhaled deeply and blew out across the land, creating the winds that would cause the ocean currents and provide relief from the heat. From his flesh he created raccoons, rabbits, bears, sheep, and other animals for the humans to feed on; but these animals would need to eat too, so Surya used the hair from his arms to create the grass and foliage that the animals would live on. Surya scraped off part of his fingernail and used that to...