The Shattering of Ayuna

Mitquutix, the darkness before time, was all there was in the universe. No speck of light shone, no sound vibrated through that darkness. Mitquutix was all there was and all there had ever been.
But slowly, so slowly you could not have said when it began, over billions of years, a spark, smaller than a grain of sand but more powerful than a hurricane's wind, a tiny spark of light began to grow. And as this light grew, it was filled with dreams of trees and birds, water and stone, green and brown and red, fire and salt. For all those years before time began, in the midst of the silent stillness of Mitquutix, that light dreamed. And grew.
When the light was bigger and more powerful than Mitquutix could ever be, when it was so full of dreams that it was bound to burst, it was then that the light discovered its name - Ayuna.
Ayuna, once named, discovered something else about Itself - the deepest yearning of all Its dreams was to create. Ayuna wanted to create beauty and balance, simplicity and complexity, cycles and patterns and unending mysteries of movement and magic. Ayuna wanted to give life to all that had been imagined and then move throughout that life in wonder and delight.
So, Its first creation was nine brown clay vessels - the Usytane - made to carry Ayuna's dreamings near and far. Within these Usytane were the nine aspects of Ayuna Itself - Sy, Ia, Hych, Gata, Quu, Koa, Toch, Uba and Aya. Each of these had a Usytane, created so carefully that even cracks were intentionally made in the vessels outer walls. These cracks were of all different shapes and sizes and depths, made so that they would break apart at different times, in different places. The power of Ayuna that would dwell within the Usytane was so great that the clay would surely burst and spill its contents out into being.

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And thus, Ayuna filled the Usytane and released them out into the unknown, waiting to see where and when they would shatter, and what would be created when they did. And in this way was the world created, with sea and mountain and cloud. Ayuna watched an Usytane break open, and blew a whisper of breath into the shimmering light. This became Sua, the sun, made from Ayuna's own breath. At the beauty of what was being created, Ayuna felt a single tear drop and be caught by the sky. This became Zhia, the moon, made from Ayuna's own tears.
Ayuna felt all the beauty being created, saw the water dancing upon the land and tasted the sea in the wind, heard the fire flaming in the stone and smelled the storms upon the waves. There was movement, great thundering crashing of land and sea. There was sound, the rumbling of stone shifting deep within the earth. There was heat, as hot as the sun, as fire erupted into air cooled by ocean mists and hardened as it fell back to earth.
Almost too much peace! Ayuna was lonely. And so more dreams were dreamt and more ideas were born, but this time Ayuna didn't want to just watch what was happening, It wanted to be what was happening. And so, Ayuna took more pieces of Itself, small shards of light of all colors and some of no color and threw them, as a farmer throws seeds into moist and ready soil.
Ayuna moved throughout this new world that had been created, that which had been created by the shattered Usytane, and scattered the last pieces of Itself across the earth until all had been given except for the very heart of The Sower.
And where each piece landed it grew, grew into a living being made of Ayuna Itself - fish, flower, snake, tree - a multitude of animals and plants and people, all connected, all sacred, all responsible for the care and protection of each of those pieces of light.
And at long last, the heart of Ayuna settled in to rest, nestled in the embrace of the land it had created, trusting Creation to cherish the gifts that had been given.

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The Sound of Ayuna

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The Nine Aspects of Ayuna

Aya - spirit

Sy - water

Ia - air

Hych - earth

Gata - fire

Quu - flora

Koa - fauna

Toch - mineral

Uba - human