Children of the Universe

The Womb, The Tomb and other Cosmic Energies

(Creation Myths of Mirico, continued)

Chimaquatka - The Great Tortoise Cosmos, the Mother Universe - she is older than sound and light.

Chichiari - The Trickster, the Spider, the Cave. His intricate web divides everything that exists, yet holds everything together. 

Glynmarra - 'The Gaia', First Child of Chimaquatka, the Patchwork Bird who created the known universe. She cried the first stars, and some believe the Earth is her back as she flies through the vastness of space.

Minotajo - The Double-Headed Mantis - After Glynmarra the Patchwork Bird flew to tatters, Minotajo followed behind her to put her fragments in their cosmic places.

Tyamulare - 'The Dark' - A great crab moth. Mother of the moons, sister to Oraphau. She is most often the symbol for night, and her energy is benevolent and mysterious. 

Oraphau - the Lion Moth - Father of Suns, Light, The Torch. His roar is felt every day at sunrise. It is said that once he passed too close to the earth and sheared off the branches of the First Tree, called Yirdilfi - the tree that gave birth to many of the creatures of Earth. 

Akhenn - The Sound - Concentric Circles. One of the oldest of Chimaquatka's children, Akhenn's presence can be both felt and heard in reverberations through the Universe. 

Iquatha'apir - The Air, the Unseen Hand, The Winds. He is the atmosphere, often depicted as a strange Jellyfish-like cloud swimming sideways through the sky. 

  Ra'Awudul - The Scorpioth, 'The Warrior, The Survivor  Brother to the Great Ray of Change, D'Mythren. He is the willful, fighting spirit of all who strive to live. It is said that his carapace cannot be permeated by anything, even light. He is ancient, one of the firstborn of Creatoli the Earth Serpent.

D'Mythren - The Seasons, the Cycles - The Great Ray who breathes the underwater blossoms onto the rocks in rivers and streams. He is also a constellation, often referred to as 'The Kite'.

Suryama - One of the eldest born of the Universe, 'The Beads', 'The Strand'. Suryama was at first a great string stretched across past, present and future. She realized that only by falling apart would everything take its place in time - thus she became the string of beads that broke, and within her expanse everything unfolds. 'A bead of Suryama' is a unit of time as it passes. 

Qyla and Oturra - 'The Orb', 'The Moons'. Being a double-headed snail that shares a single shell, the Moon sisters take turns appearing in the sky. The cycles of the moon gradually reveal one snail, and then the other. When a full moon is present, both have drawn into the shell, and when there is a new moon Chichiari the Trickster is creeping across the sky and covering their shell. 

Yirdilfi - 'The Tree of Flame', 'The First Fire'. At first his leaves were lava, and his branches were the beds of steaming stone that stretched across the lands being born. His roots reached deeper into the earth than anything alive, where the beating heart of the Earthfire stirred. Later, as the world cooled, Yirdilfi solidified into a great host of branches, and became greenly alive. He was the father of the Forests, and his fruits were the creatures, among these the people of the Hand, Earth Ambassadors and Humans. 

Q'dala - 'The Muses', 'The White', 'The Architect'. Depicted as a mist of varying shapes Q'dala is among the most mysterious and widely interpreted earth energies. She is silence, and has the properties of light without being able to glow. She is credited by many artisans and musicians as their inspiration, and her whispers are listened for by many creative spirits. 

Creatoli - 'The Root', 'The Earth Serpent', 'The Male Twin'. It is said that Creatoli was a root broken off of the great tree of Yirdilfi, and for a time he swam in the deeps of the world, swallowing earth and growing to enormous size. Slowly he burrowed to the surface, and as the stars fell from the sky to the infant Earth, Creatoli leaped from the soil and swallowed them, taking the sky fire into his belly. Doing this he created mountain ranges and hills, It is said that in a great battle with the fire of the sky he finally fell to rest in the place where the Himalayan Mountains rise, and this place is the bones of his great Earth body. He is brother to L'Wambwah.

L'Wambwah - 'The River', 'The Flow', 'The Deeps', "The Female Twin'. As the atmosphere of Earth began to establish, drop by drop L'Wambwah's watery form began to pool together. She flowed through Creatoli's every crack and crevice, and became ice, vapor and stream. Anywhere she slept became a lake or an ocean. She went to sleep in the far north, and froze into a single mass of ice that is now the Arctic Circle.