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Genesis

November 18, 2018
By carrieannjilan BRONZE, Muscat, Other
carrieannjilan BRONZE, Muscat, Other
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A father, Petara, a spirit, Roh Kudus, and a son, Kristus were walking in the darkness. Petara was the beginning and has no form but existence. Roh Kudus came next. He too had no form and never speaks. Kristus was the son of Petara but took form of man and is love. In the dark, Petara saw nothing good in the universe. And so he gently took half the stars above and blew it into a sandy sphere. Roh saw what Petara did. It was good. Roh took some sand and swallowed it. He exhaled the sand and it settled into land with a garden worthy of the name Edin. Kristus stood quietly behind Petara and Roh with obedience while looking up at their makings. Seeing what Roh and Petara did, Kristus spoke light into the new world and the sun began rising. As the sun grew in the sky, the seas crashed in symphonic chaos with harmony. The ocean soften the blaze of the newborn star. They were tired, and so they sat on mountains. All three saw it was good and smiled at each other. In an instant, a rainbow encompassed the Earth.

There was no one to take care of the world and for them to love. Kristus asked the Father for permission to manifest life in the form on humans and animals. Petara graciously agreed. Kristus asked for guidance from Roh in creating life. Roh told him, “Create life in your image for you make no mistakes and it will be good.” But Bunsu Antu, who arose with the rising sun, saw humans and animals as a chance to dominate over life and was afraid the creation of Earth would take attention away from him. Bunsu sits atop the sun with embers of flames surrounding his torn wings and halo. He pinched pockets of the land and filled the Earth with liquid fire, creating volcanoes to destroy what was made. He also created monsters of land, wind, ocean, and fire.

Kristus perfectly crafted men, women, and animals to live in harmony eternally in the garden with the knowledge of the universe. They did so in the name of Kristus. But Petara gave them two commandments: never fall under guidance of idols, rather, have faith only in the trinity and love thy neighbor. After Petara, Roh Kudus, and Kristus left to create the heavens, humans found it difficult to live in harmony under threat of Bunsu. The crops wouldn’t grow and earthly fiends burned, quaked, and destroyed villages. This was the triumphant welcome of Bunsu as he crushed and crashed everything on Earth. The chaos of generous floods and steady quivers of the earth terrorized the people, their desperation led Bunsu to give them a choice: worship me through perversion of every kind or face his wrath. Having forgotten Petara’s commandment, they obeyed Bunsu.The adulterous praises led to harming others and the animals. Just like that, humans sought control over nature.

Petara, Roh Kudus, and Kristus were disappointed and took the gift of immortality away, and stricken them with vacuous intelligence. From then on, hate, envy, selfishness, and the pursuit of understanding everything has rotted nature through civilization.


The author's comments:

This is a creative take on a creation story, inspired by other culture's origin stories I've read in my Literature class.


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