The making of the worlds
When HE-WHO-BEGINS had made the gods there were only the gods, and They sat in the middle of Time, for there was as much Time before them as behind them, which having no end had neither a beginning.
And the universes was without heat or light or sound, save for the drumming of SKARL ; moreover the universes were The Middle of All, for there was below the worlds what there was above it, and there lay before it that which lay beyond.
Then said the gods, making the signs of the gods and speaking with Their hands lest the silence of the worlds should blush; then said the gods to one another, speaking with Their hands; "Let Us make worlds to amuse Ourselves while HE-WHO-BEGINS rests. Let Us make worlds and Life and Death, and colours in the sky; only let Us not break the silence upon the universes."
Then raising Their hands, they made the worlds and the suns, and put a light in the houses of the sky.
Then said the gods: "Let Us make one to seek, to seek and never to find out concerning the wherefore of the making of the gods."
Then said the gods, still speaking with Their hands: "Let there be now a Watcher to regard."
And They made the moons, to regard with pale eyes the games of the small gods, and to watch throughout the resting time of HE-WHO-BEGINS; to watch, to regard all things, and be silent.
Then the gods said: "We have made worlds and suns, and one to seek and another to regard, let Us now make one to wonder."
And They made this world to wonder, and so this world was.
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