The CoGE Creation Story
Christians often refer to the Bible as “the greatest story ever told.” The scientific version of our world's history is also a great story, but we rarely tell it that way, which is a shame--people really need a story to describe a thing before they can truly believe in it. In the Bible story, God created the Universe; in the Church of Gaia/Earthseed's version of the story, the Universe created that which we worship, the body of all Life on Earth, which we call Gaia. This is a first draft of that story in poem form. (I'm not actually a poet, so any help with making this better is very much welcome.)
- Four and a half long eons ago,
- when our Universe was a mere two-thirds as ancient as today,
- Gaia was conceived
- in fire.
- The atoms that would form Her
- were born in the awesome and terrible death throes
- of mighty suns.
- The land that would become Her flesh
- was shaped,
- melted, reforged and melted again by the hammerblows
- of a million falling stones.
- The water that would become Her blood
- was spewed forth in fire from the depths of the angry young planet,
- falling back to the cooling earth as oceans of torrential rain
- joined by fierce bolts of lightning.
- Yet amid all this Chaos,
- that which would become Gaia began to grow.
- In the rich waters of storm-washed pools,
- or in the fantastic invisible crystal crenellations of clay,
- or perhaps in the deeps of the new ocean, fed by fires from below,
- the myriad blind atoms came together
- in all their myriad ways, and soon found the forms
- that could act to remake pieces of the world
- in their own image.
- So Life was born on Earth.
Part 2, covering the birth of Gaia Herself, will have to wait until I read up on how that's supposed to have worked. (Note: does anyone think I should stop capitalizing the H? I feel kind of weird doing that.)
--Scifiben 17:15, 9 August 2008 (PDT)
