I was curious what other people have made as far as creation myths and stories.
Here is one of mine:
The Void awoke and thought. From its thought came Chaos. Chaos was and is and is all there will be. Void saw this and heard this and hated it, so the Void created Imortos, a being of perfect order. Imortos also hated Chaos, but did not understand how to stop Chaos. So Void thought one more time and created a being that understood both chaos and order, Kelaster. Kelaster looked at Chaos and Imortos and came up with an idea. He began whispering things to Imortos and dropping hints here and there, sowing the seeds of what was to come.
It was then that Imortos came to Kelaster with an idea. He would build a great machine that would finally transform Chaos into order. He poured over the details, explaining it to Kelaster. Kelaster would interject only to offer suggestions and make minor corrections. When Imortos finished, Kelaster asked Imortos what he would build this great machine out of. "You," replied Imortos.
"Now brother, do you really think that I would make good materials for this machine? I would muck it up, ruining the perfect order of things," replied Kelaster. His words resonated with Imortos, and Imortos asked Kelaster to aid him in becoming the machine. Imortos wrote out all the instructions for the machine and then instructed Kelaster to cut him up and reassemble him as Mechanus, the Cosmic Clock. Kelaster killed Imortos and did as instructed, but tweaked the design somewhat as he did so. When Mechanus began, time did as well, killing Chaos and splitting it into the past, the present, and the future. Because Kelaster tweaked Imortos' design, chance now exists and the future is not fully realized.
Whew, that was longer than I thought it would be. Thanks for staying and reading. Can't wait to read some of yours.
My world doesn't understand the concept of origins. The world is static and unchanging. All that is, always has been. And always will be. The story is the process of them discovering this is not true, and of discovering that their very thought processes have been altered to prevent them thinking too much about it. It's a very "we have always been at war with Eastasia" setting.
That is fun! I think it is very natural for people to believe that things don't change or that they cycle instead of changing so I could see how whole populations can get convinced of this. Are there any fringe groups who are trying to find the truth? Some shady cult somewhere that is trying to defy the entire world order?
There is a shady cult but it's more like the outcasts of society. They're not so much trying to defy the world order but rather avoid its attention.
There are two main warring factions on the continent (roughly the size of Australia) and also this 3rd group of outcasts, which both sides see as fair game for impressment and harassment. They exist on the fringes, both literally and metaphorically. They're nomadic traders similar to gypsies.
The two interesting things about them is that 1) the programming doesn't work on them. They don't know the truth, and they're too harried and poverty stricken to seek it, but they know what the other people believe doesn't make sense. They also know the two factions will kill them for pointing this out. And 2) there's a lot more of them than anyone realizes, including them. They're just scattered.