Unlid the Fury

Chapter 2

IN THE BEGINNING WAS JAZI

The V1B6F3 had brought disruption upon Jazi’s design. It brought the smell of death to diffuse at very high speed. However, Jazi’s handiwork was not for hunger, starvation, and anguish, and gnashing of teeth to dwell freely in. He did not make the world so that fear and hatred would be visited on it at the volition of any man. From the very beginning, Jazi’s spirit had kept on hovering over the surface of the deluge and formlessness that were covered in darkness. He did not think it right to leave the mass of darkness and water to remain just like that. Enormous love streamed through his heart as it always did. “There is something good to do with this,” he said to himself gently, “I want to pour all my love into this thing that I will make.”

Jazi also wanted to make another thing, something so wonderful to be made out of his bountiful love that it would stand out and be left in charge. He embarked on this work at once.

And right after that, something called light came into existence. It stood out clearly from all the darkness that used to be, with an awesome piercing and far-reaching illumination.

Darkness and light mesmerized Jazi after he had separated them. He went on to assign each of them different times to reign, and day and night came into existence. The Light held its sway during the day, and darkness did the same at night. No confusion about the roles for these two arose at all, for Jazi’s work was a full epitome of order and arrangement to the very core. The water in existence began to move. A portion of it moved up and the other portion moved down.

And that was how empty space began to exist between the water. This space became known as the sky. Water below the sky began to move and gathered in one place, allowing dry ground to appear. Jazi kept on falling in love with his progress so far. The dry ground he named ‘land,’ and the water he named ‘sea.’

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The dry ground began to show the appearance of all sorts of grass and seed-bearing plants. Assorted trees with seed-bearing fruits began to appear, each capable of producing the kind of tree it came from. They all began to multiply. All the water became filled with fish and other marine creatures. This huge presence of myriad aquatic life looked good to Jazi. He went ahead in his growing joy to cause the sky to be filled with birds of different kinds. It felt gratifying to watch them fly about. And, then came the turn of all small animals, wild animals and livestock, each capable of producing its own kind. They all emerged from the ground, all sorts of beasts, and began to multiply. Jazi was not going to leave it all like this. One more thing was needed to bring his masterpiece to completion. Then at last, the outpouring of his endless love accumulated to give rise to humanity. That meant that the first man and woman began to walk the surface of the earth after arising from dust. They had the capacity to multiply as well.

This was Jazi’s way of putting his beloved humanity in charge of his beautiful creation. He crowned his work with love and constantly made sure that it always was a source of delight to him. He also left a web of interdependence, which he expected all he had created to subsist within and have everlasting peace and harmony. Man was dependent on plants and animals for food, and animals were dependent on plants and other animals in turn. The crops were dependent on man and animal feces for nutrients essential to their growth, and animals and plants depended on man for their tender loving care.

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CHAPTER 3