All Creation
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All Creation
It is said that the curve of space is an obsidian mirror. It is dark; it is cold; yet warmth and color glint in its depths.
It is said to be her home.
In the deep of the obsidian mirror, the great plumed serpent sleeps. She rises, she dances, she plays in the heavens. It is all there is. She is all there is. She dances, the only being in all creation.
It is said she dances for eons, alone in the darkness. It is said the plumed serpent has no name, for of what use is a name to the whole deep universe? Of what use is a name to all creation, cradled by the depth of nothingness? Existence and absence dance together in the Before, eternally entwined.
It is also said that she looks at the darkness, into the mirror, and sees herself. She realizes: she is lonely.
With a great shake and shudder, she splits herself like a shell upon a rock. Then there are two -- snake and quetzal, gazing upon each other with love. "Itzamna," she whispers into the darkness, knowing somehow that this is the quetzal's name.
"Ixchel," the quetzal replies. They embrace. Deep in Ixchel's heart, she knows this is her mate.
Together in the heavens, serpent and bird dance and play, chasing each other across the endless sky. They come together in love, and from their union seven children spill forth in a rainbow of new life. The universe is no longer dark.
It is said that when Ixchel grows tired of the universe, she eats her children and her mate and then destroys all she has created. Then she takes pieces of the old world to create anew.
We are in the sixth sun now, cast from the bones of the last sun. It is said that when Ixchel and her children see a monster in the dark, they tame the monster into a world full of the possibility of life. It is said that Ixchel and her children populate the world with their various creations, quetzals and maize from Itzamna, humans and rabbits from Ixtab, each one beloved of its divine parents but none more beloved than humans of Ixtab.
It is said that life in the desert is a test of our faith and that Ixtab weeps to see us suffer.
Who says these things? I do not know. I know only that they are said.
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