Re: [Adonthell-general] Human creation myth

[Andrew Michael Phillips]

My thinking was that they were all interested in what would transpire in 
the new world, so they all left representatives or shadows of their power 
behind to act as messengers. Those two, having no physical or elemental 
dominion in the world, put in new things so that they, too, could be 
aware of what happened after.

Each has a near-perfect knowledge of his or her own sphere of influence, 
but not very much knowledge of the other spheres. Those with no influence 
would in the the dark about the new world.

The four races take this concept to its end, so that each group within the 
Mighty Ones has its own messengers, caretakers, and supplicants, who would 
of course carry news in their prayers. 

Humans are the partial exception to this rule, since they were not 
deliberately created by any of the Mighty. Each and all had a distant 
hand in their making, but none meant to do so. As a result, Humans are the 
most diverse in their worship while being most at odds with the world. 

As far as relevance, that would vary drastically. Most would think the 
myths to be old, quaint stories and not terribly relevant. Some thinkers, 
like Rymon, would consider them essentially true, if not very accurate, 
and spend time pondering the relationships between the races. Others, like 
the witch and the more learned alchemists would be firm believers, going 
so far as to invoke the Mighty or their servants.

I need to add one or two more characters to the myth, then it will be 
done. My story is rather like the Ainulinadale and the Valaquenta (found 
in the same volume as the Silmarillion), and does include both a High King 
of the Mighty and a Dark Prince, whose name I haven't come up with. I 
might just leave him nameless, for effect.

Andrew

On Fri, 19 Jul 2002, Kai Sterker wrote:

> On Thu, 18 Jul 2002 17:49:57 -0500 (CDT) Andrew Michael Phillips wrote:
> 
> > I've drafted a human creation myth
> > 
> > http://endor.hsutx.edu/~cptlogic/adonthell/humanordr.html
> 
> Hey, that's another excellent piece of writing! The only question I
> really have after reading is the motivation of the Lord of Beasts and
> Queen of Birds. Any special reason why they made those animals? Of
> course, a creation myth needs not be sensible, so that'd be okay as it
> is. It just interests me :).
> 
> Another question is of how much relevance this is to the people. I could
> for example imagine that the witch would be a firm believer in the
> Mighty Ones and/or their servants.
> 
> Kai
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All that is gold does not glitter,
  Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
  Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
>From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
  A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
  The crownless again shall be king