Long ago, there was nothing...at least nothing that we would understand today. There was a curious sort of void. Nothing really existed, yet everything had the potential to exist, merely needing something to light the wick.

Perhaps there was one being in this early void. Perhaps not. In this legend, there is the assumption that there was. Her name has been lost through time, but the impacts of her actions will live on past this generation and hundreds in the future. This being, a goddess in her own right, began to give the void order.

One could say that she created everything, but in all truth, she didn’t. She merely allowed everything to fulfill it’s potential.  The stars in the sky, the sun, the moon, the other planets in the solar system...and yes, of course, the Earth.

When all of the void had been ordered, she glanced over the newborn universe. And she saw that it was good, though she had not had much influence over how it had been formed.

One of the newborn planets caught her eye, for it looked even more desolate than the others, as though something were meant to be there that was not. She tried to figure out what was different about this planet, but it eluded her. She just knew that it needed more.

Her attention focused on this small planet, at the time merely a steaming ball of lava. Finding this too hot for her liking, she saw that water soaked the earth, cooling it and separating oceans and land. The soil on the land was rich, for it was mostly a nutrient laden ash. She looked at this, and saw it would be ideal for life...which confused her, as she wasn’t sure what “life” was.

Surveying her works, she decided that nothing else seemed out of place, and concentrated her efforts this small planet, which she dubbed Earth. In the same fashion that she created the planet itself, she created a few small plants and simple animals.

Life wasn’t like it is now, for those few plants and animals multiplied and changed rapidly. While she watched on in amazement, the life on Earth evolved and spread, and soon the world looked lush and green, with an amazing array of beautiful animals and plants, the likes of which we can only imagine.

She was overjoyed at the result, yet still had the nagging suspicion that something was missing. An image briefly flashed in her head of a creature, unlike any of the others. What we would now call a human. It fit. She opened herself to the powers of creation, and lo, there was a small colony of humans on Earth.

Looking down at them, she realised that they were not well adapted to life on Earth. They had not the speed to catch prey, nor the strength to avoid becoming prey. They had no pelt to warm them in the winter.  Because of their obvious shortcomings, she gave them intelligence beyond that of the other animals, and the ability for advanced communication through speech. And she rested, for she felt the world was complete, and watched over her Earth.

All went well for some time. Her humans lived with the Earth, worshipping it, causing it no harm. The other animals adapted around them, and the humans only managed to hunt what they needed, and gathered only what they could eat.

Then, a side effect of the intelligence kicked in.  The humans developed a strong curiosity. They could no longer accept that they just were, they needed an explanation. They grew apathetic in their hunting and gathering, knowing no reason that they’d actually need to do such.

She gave the humans a final gift, the ability to create their own religion. In essence, she created a God to explain what she had done for the world. She was upset watching them pray to this creation of theirs, but loved the Earth and humans, and so, accepted it.

Until she saw what humans did with religion. She saw the hate, and the war. She saw evil, though she had only created good, having not understood evil as a concept. Perhaps she did not understand good, either, but upon seeing her world perverted by the evil and hatred brought to Earth by the humans and their Gods, she could watch no longer.

And so, she disappeared. Some say she went to create another world, hoping to fix the errors she had made on this one. Others insist that she was so disheartened by the events on Earth that she simply ceased to exist. She was simply crowded out of her creation by the Gods she had given her humans. And so it goes