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They pretended as though they were going to board the robot fighter, but I knew they simply wanted their privacy from me. The ceilings of the building were atrociously tall and made me feel cold and small. I followed the bright yellow lines on the floor and watched as the various stations heated up with an exhale of smoke. I could see it hit his middle as his fists clenched uncontrollably. Nazaarad had a smooth skull that sloped back into a rounded point with a large spire that fell limply from the base of his neck.
We looked like brothers, so always acted as such: both born with a pale tan skin and green hues that created a gradient along our foreheads. Nazaarad craned his neck to me; slow, comically, letting his spire whip into the background. I rolled my eyes and exhaled, making my way out of the hangar. Suddenly my body seized, and more heat rose up in me as I thought of the humans: of Karen and what her people had done.
The very mention of them made an uncontrollable beast rise up in me. Not knowing the next move. As we reached the doors leading out of the main entrance I heard a loud smack, like bone on bone.
I spun around, and Nazaarad followed suit. We watched as two of our kind launched toward one another, a new human, Tiffany, at the center of their fight. The two of them began whipping at one another wildly, with Kez grabbing the attacker with the tentacle spire coming out the back of his neck and slamming him against the steely ground below. Lord of Scoundrels by Loretta Chase. Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover. Love and Other Words by Christina Lauren. Second Chance Stepbrother by Penny Wylder.
Black Forever by Victoria Quinn. Getting Her Back by Wylder , Penny. Hit and Run Love by Jennifer Peel. When Pan Gu died, parts of his body were transformed into different features of the world. According to some stories, his head, arms, feet, and stomach became great mountains that help to anchor the world and mark its boundaries.
Other stories, however, tell how Pan Gu created humans by shaping them from clay and leaving them in the sun to dry. When a sudden rain began to fall, Pan Gu hastily wrapped up the clay figures, damaging some in the process, which explains why some humans are crippled or disabled. Japanese tradition, preserved in a volume of mythological history called the Kojiki, says that before creation there was an oily sea.
Gods came into being in the High Plains of Heaven. After seven generations of deities came the first human ancestors, whose task was to make solid land. They stirred the sea with a jeweled spear. Drops that fell from the spear formed the islands of Japan. The Sumerian myth Enki and Ninhursag tells the story of the beginning of the world in the garden of paradise known as Dilmun.
Ninhursag, depicted as a young and vibrant goddess, has retired for the winter to rest after her part in creation. Enki, god of wisdom, magic, and fresh water, finds her there and falls deeply in love with her.
Ninhursag blesses the child with abundant growth, and she matures into a woman in nine days. When spring comes, Ninhursag must return to her duties of nurturing living things on earth and leaves Dilmun, but Enki and Ninsar remain.
Enki misses Ninhursag terribly and, one day, sees Ninsar walking by the marshes and believes her to be the incarnation of Ninhursag. He seduces her, and she becomes pregnant with a daughter Ninkurra goddess of mountain pastures. Ninkurra also develops into a young woman in nine days, and Enki again believes he sees his beloved Ninhursag in the girl. Uttu and Enki are happy together for a while, but just as with Ninsar and Ninkurra, Enki falls out of love with her once he realizes she is not Ninhursag and leaves her, returning to his work on earth.
Uttu is distraught and calls upon Ninhursag for help, explaining what has happened. Uttu does as she is told, and nine days later, eight new plants grow from the earth. At this point, Enki returns along with his vizier Isimud.
Passing by the plants, Enki stops to ask what they are, and Isimud plucks from the first and hands it to Enki, who eats it. This, he learns, is a tree plant and finds it so delicious that Isimud plucks the other seven, which Enki also quickly eats. Ninhursag returns and is enraged that Enki has eaten all of the plants. She turns on him the eye of death, curses him, and departs from paradise and the world.
Enki becomes sick and is dying, and all the other gods mourn, but no one can heal him except for Ninhursag, and she cannot be found. She kisses him and asks him where his pain is, and each time he tells her, she draws the pain into her body and gives birth to another deity. Enki is healed and repents for his carelessness in eating the plants and thoughtlessness in seducing the girls. Ninhursag forgives him, and the two return to the work of creation. At the beginning it was only darkness and a bare land… The Aborigines of Australia are considered one of the oldest surviving cultures in the world.
Many different creation stories exist among the different Aboriginal groups. It is believed that a culture of heroes gods travelled across a land without form and created sacred sites and other significant places, giving the language to people. One of the legends describes only bare land existing in the beginning. There was no life on Earth—no animals, no plants, no trees and no humans. Wandjina The Wandjina sometimes Wondjina are cloud and rain spirits from Australian Aboriginal mythology that are depicted prominently in rock art in Australia , the creator, brought our ancestors from within the earth and over the seas, and life began.
Some of the ancestors were like men and others were like animals. In fact, according to the myths it is believed that our ancestors were able to change shape and become either man or animal. In some other versions, Wandjina was not one god but many gods, or spirit gods, which are depicted with big black eyes, no mouth, and a halo—certainly not representing human beings.
Legends tell how Wandjina walked on Earth and created everything from rivers and mountains to plants and animals. Wonnarua, Kamilaroi, Eora, Darkinjung, and Wiradjuri , of Indigenous Australians of south-east Australia later arrives from the skies with his wife Birrahgnooloo Emu, goddess of fertility. They had a son named Darramulum. Baiame gave the first rules to humans, forbidding them to eat the animals.
Later, mankind began to kill and eat animals. They were caught and punished by the god. A few suggest that Christianity altered the original Aboriginal myths and included elements from The Bible. In the Aboriginal tribes the name of the creator is forbidden to be spoken publicly. It is also forbidden for women to see any drawings depicting Baiame, or to go to any sacred sites.
In other legends it is mentioned that the ancestors used to fight between themselves, and new things would be created during those fights, such as rivers, hills, mountains and lakes.
Again in the Aboriginal myths we have the same pattern of gods arriving from the sky—gods with powers—and creating humans, who then fight amongst themselves and are punished by the gods for disobedience. If we take into account that Australia is a completely isolated continent, it is curious that these common patterns would also appear in their myths.
The Maori had no tradition of the Creation. The great mysterious Cause of all things existing in the Cosmos was, as he conceived it, the generative Power.
Then followed certain beings existing when Cosmos was without form, and void. We have reason to consider the mythological traditions of the Maori as dating from a very antient period. They are held to be very sacred, and not to be repeated except in places set apart as sacred. The common worship of these primitive Atua constituted the National religion of the Maori.
Ancestral spirits who had lived in the flesh before the migration to New Zealand would be invoked by all the tribes in New Zealand, so far as their names had been preserved, in their traditional records as mighty spirits.
The cause of the preservation of their Genealogies becomes intelligible when we consider that they often formed the ground-work of their religious formulas, and that to make an error or even hesitation in repeating a karakia was deemed fatal to its efficacy. In the forms of karakia addressed to the spirits of ancestors, the concluding words are generally a petition to the Atua invoked to give force or effect to the karakia as being derived through the Tipua, the Pukenga, and the Whananga, and so descending to the living Tauira.
According to some Polynesians, a creator god named Tangaloa sent a bird messenger over an endless primal sea. At last Tangaloa threw a rock into the sea so the tired bird would have a place to land.
Then the god created all the islands in the same way. The bird made the first people by giving arms, legs, hearts, and souls to maggots.
Other Polynesian stories describe creation as the union of two opposing qualities: Po darkness and Ao light. Polynesian and Micronesian cosmogonies often include the act of separating the earth from the sky.
Melanesian creation myths generally involve ancestral heroes who wander from place to place, forming the landscape and creating the rules of society. Pachacamac then changed the existing human race into animals and created a whole new race of men and women.
In some versions of the myths the god sent four stars to earth, the two male stars became the kings and nobility while the two female stars became the commoners. In the beginning, Pachacamac the sun rose slowly from Lake Titicaca.
Pachacamac was so bright that nothing else could be seen in the sky but him. But the night sky was empty; so he made the stars, the planets and the moon. The beautiful moon, Pachamama, became his wife and together they ruled the heavens and the earth.
Pachacamac fashioned the first humans from the stone of an enormous mountain of rock. The first humans were pitiful creatures; they knew nothing of the world nor how to survive in it.
The sun and the moon bore a son and a daughter. Out of pity they sent their children to the earth to help them. The son of Pachacamac taught men how to plow and plant the fields, and how to build houses.
The daughter of the moon approached the women and taught them the art of weaving, and how to prepare food. I will provide light and warmth, every day without fail; but make sure they never forget their creators. After a while, the Inca and his wife took a long journey to find the perfect place to his people to settle.
Each golden rod would be a symbol for his people to build a city. When they reached the valley of Huanacauri, the golden rod sank into the ground and disappeared. Inca decided that here should be the site of the first temple of the sun, and that here is where he and his people would settle.
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