Origin Myth

In Mythology class, we needed to write our own Creation story. Because STAC has been so into myth lately, I thought I may as well test an audience if they're already there. Hence, enjoy the creation of the world, according to Mollyism:

ORIGIN

In the beginning, there was only the Creator, who was the Universe. The Universe was his body, and because he was immortal He was always growing. The Creator was omnicient, and when he saw that Everything was only Himself, He was lonely and let out a tear. This tear welled in the corner of His eye, and this tear became the Earth. The Earth was a bottomless ocean, and the Creator saw this and thought it was good.

As the tear began to fall from His eye, He engendered two guardians of the world: The Mother, who was a ball of fire serving as the fulcrum of the world, and her husband, Father, who was a shark. The Creator made the Father to be the perfect patroller of the seas, because he could never pause. The Creator gave these two a collection of souls to populate the world, and sent the two to Earth to guard the souls. The Mother held them in her womb, and on the first day she released small fish into the sea. Her husband the shark quickly returned them to her, and so on the second day she sent the souls back into the sea as whales and dolphins. That evening, her husband the shark returned half the dispatched souls, and she saw that they were good.

On the third day, the Mother decided he wanted more children living on the Earth. From her mouth, she belched out an island. On the fourth day she inhabited the land with lions and dogs. They lived on the island, and so her husband the shark could not bring their souls back to the ocean's abyss. However, he was patient, and waited by the shore for the animals to drink. When their lips touched the water, the shark attacked, and so could eventually return all the souls back to his wife.

His wife saw this, and was displeased. On the fifth day, she increased the size of her island, so the animals could avoid Father more easily. However, they did not know fear, and so continued living on the edge of the islands, where Father awaited them.

Hoping to keep her children far from Father's grasp, Mother engendered birds with the returned souls, so they might stay in the sky, apart from the ocean. On the sixth day she sent them forth and did not expect to see them again. Indeed, Father followed them from beneath the water all day, and could find no way to reach them and reclaim their souls. He had nearly given up when it became night and the birds needed to sleep. In the dark, not knowing where they were, they landed atop the waves and were captured, one-by-one, by their Father the shark.

Seeing this, Mother became angered. Trying to defeat her husband in this battle, she begot the first man, and embedded in him a fear of Father Shark. She told man to keep his kin and the animals safe from the shark. On the seventh day man herded the dogs and lions to the center of the island, where they stayed all day, longing for a drink of water. These children began to cry, and the Creator heard their words of anguish and wept with them. These tears rained down upon them, and so they were saved.

The children lived together on the eighth day, and the Father could return only the sea creatures and birds to Mother. Man could not protect those in the sea without risking confronting Father, and he could not show the birds where to land at nighttime. Wanting to save the birds, who were being killed off like sitting ducks, Mother gave man fire. Man used it to guide the birds onto the island, where they all flocked to each night. Before long, the animals began to wail. The Creator, still within earshot of the Earth, saw that they needed to be returned to their Mother.

On the ninth day the Creator invented hunger, and the birds began diving into the sea to eat the fish, sometimes unable to escape from Father shark. When the survivors landed on the island that night, the dogs ate the birds.

On the tenth day, man hunted the different animals and cooked them on the fire Mother entrusted them with. The lion ate everything except man, for the lion feared man's fire.

On the eleventh day the island was overrun by man, and the Creator saw this from his peripherals and saw it was not good. He commanded the children to give their souls back to the ocean when ready, and so that night the elders walked into the ocean and Father shark claimed them and returned them to Mother, so she might give the souls to younger bodies the next morning.

On the twelfth day, the world of the Creator's tear fell from his eye, and is now slowly dropping down His ever-growing body.