A Creation Story

Written by Dawn Smith

In a time before now, in a place before there was a here, before your mothers' mothers, many mothers back, walked the earth. In the time when Earth and Sky were still One. In the time before the great Gods, Osiris, Morgana, Kali, Grandmother Spider walked the earth. Before humans first stirred, before the birds first song. Before the universe was.

There was a thought. No one being thought it. No lips uttered it.

Nothing Was.

The universe, the blackness, the power, the blazing molten universe, thought. The thought was:

Lets Play.

Lets pretend we aren't pretending. Lets act our little roles. Lets pretend this is real, so very real.

Lets pretend earth and sky are separate.

And earth and sky seemed separate.

Lets pretend there is a difference between night and day.

And there was night and day

Lets pretend that parts of the earth seem to be alive, and that parts of the earth seem not alive.

And there was stone and fur

Lets pretend there is a difference between stone and water and there was ocean and land.

Now the universe thought some more and dreamed some more and then the universe looked at the (pretend) universe and (pretended) to care and (pretended) to do more....

Lets keep playing.... this is such fun....

Lets pretend that there is fur that runs and feather that fly. And there were creatures of fur that leaped with joy, and creatures that flew with feathers with joy through the air.

The universe looked at what it had made, and how it had changed itself.

Lets pretend that there's life that's big and life that's small, is different.

And there was little bits of life, and big bits of life and it was thought that they were different.

The universe looked at itseld, and what it had made itself into, and rejoiced. The universe looked at the earth and said

"lets pretend there are creatures who think themselves different from all other creatures"

And there was humans.

Lets pretend that some of the humans are different from others of the humans. They shall think they don't need each other but really they do.

And there was man and woman.

Lets pretend that each human is different and separate from each other and from everything else.

And woman and man thought themselves separate from the world.

The universe looked at it all, and it laughed.

The laughter broke up and became One being and Another being.

And the great beings looked at each other. One said "lets pretend I am Goddess" and the other said "And that I am God"

They looked at the universe and looked at each other, and thought:

"lets pretend this is all real"

and it seemed that the living dream became real.

The Lord and Lady looked at what was, smiling and exploring. They loved each other and were one with the universe that is.

And that is how it is. So keep up th game, keep up pretending. The idea echoed through the universe....

"lets play" "Lets pretend we aren't pretending" and play that all this is real