Melkorism

Creation Myth

In the beginning there was Darkness, the eternal Darkness which now surrounds our world. And in the Darkness walked a great Being, and he looked about Him, and saw the Darkness, and saw that He was alone within it. Thus alone, He named Himself for the first time the Lord of Darkness, and commanded the Darkness to obey His commands. And the Darkness was gathered within the hands of its Lord, and He span it with his thought as a potter now might spin his wheel. As the Darkness drew together, it took form, and being pushed together and together by the thought of the Lord of Darkness, the Darkness became unlike itself, and it pushed away other Darkness surrounding itself. The Lord of Darkness looked at His creation, and smiled upon it, and called it Light, and named himself again the Lord of Light. Desiring the Light, the Lord reached out again into the Darkness and sculpted again, and again, and made balls of Light that He scattered about the Darkness, and they lay within it, and yet the Darkness surrounded it. Again the Lord looked about him and saw the Darkness and the Light, and saw Darkness now coming together in corpuscles of their own accord, and he was glad of the sight. And so it was out of Darkness that our world was made, and it is written that he pronounced before his first creations, and would again, "Greatest of all is the Dark, for It has no bounds. I came out of the Dark, but I am Its master. For I have made Light."

But the Darkness and the Light did not respond to their Lord, save by their obedience, for they could not do otherwise. And the Lord focused on the Light, to change his creation, and found that he had fixed its form too firmly. It would not change its nature. Then the Lord reached again out into the Darkness, and bent his thought upon it. Yet by his old methods he could make only Light, which did not please him. The Lord took thought, and at length peered down at the corpuscles of Darkness that had drawn themselves as close as they could unto the Light. And he saw the potential of this Darkness, that it strove not to obey but to understand, and the Lord went down to one sphere of Darkness. The Darkness revealed its own desires to its Lord, who shaped it as it wished but could not do itself. Out of the Darkness he formed the elements, the airs, the waters, the places of land, and then living things. The plants and insects and beasts of the sea, the beasts of the field, and then, finally, other Beings. And these Beings were the pinnacle of the potential of Darkness, for they were free to grow and understand, and to empower themselves over the other Creations, and over each other. And the Lord of Darkness took his final titles, the Lord of All, the Giver of Freedom, and pronounced again before his latest creations the pronouncement to Darkness and Light, and added "I give you this Taijitu, and if you grow strong in My service, I may yet make other worlds as gifts to those that serve Me, so that the increase of their power shall find no end." And he promised eternal life to the greatest of Beings, that they grow into and develop Command.