A Creation Myth

I was thinking how Wicca does not have a creation myth and so started to ponder how I perceived (metaphysically at least) the creation of the universe. Below is the first draft. It unexpectedly has a touch of the early Greek creation myth to it and no outwardly Wiccan symbolism. Then again, I see "deity" as we know it today to be part manifestation of universal energies and part created by us through archetypes. Or perhaps they manifest though these archetypes? Hmmm... food for thought. Either way, at the moment of Creation, I think things were still too primordial for deity as such, only these basic forces.

A Creation Myth
Pondered by John J. Coughlin
(v1.1)

In the beginning there was the Great Void - that which existed only in its nonexistence.

At a point that could be an instant or an eternity there arose something. That something was Chaos.

Chaos offered the potential for infinite possibilities - of all that was, is or ever can be.

It was from this great potential that Desire was eventually born.

So great was the power of Desire that even Chaos could not resist its pull.

From their interactions there arose pockets of order from which patterns emerged. Things began to combine and interact until entities and deities of a thousand kind were formed.

Soon the universe was formed and the roots of life began to take hold.

In this order even Chaos grew sentient, and with this awareness came concern that the increasing order threatened the very nature of Its being.

It was from this need that Destruction was spawned from the primordial Chaos.

The power of Destruction was so great that things began to fall apart and die.

Desire liked the order and so the never-ending war was waged against Destruction.

It is from this war that balance was achieved, as fragile as it is.

One day the war will be won, and regardless of the victor, existence as it is now will come to an end;

For our existence IS that balance.

©1997 - 2001, John Coughlin
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