Edge of Creation

Celestial

Myth of creation of Mriyar and the Celestial Oak by the Creators.

From the legends of old we know the story of Creation of Mriyar:  

It all started with a spark in a vastness darkness.

The Creators came from the far beyond, guided by the newlyborn, shimmering, chaotic spark. Their wisdom and knowledge, inspiration and ambitions, love and spirituality helped them see a great potential hidden within this light.   And so, uniting their forces, the Creators took that small spark and nourished it with their power. The spark transformed into the tree seed, then opened itself to the great new world, and slowly but surely the Celestial Oak has been grown. And in the heart of it - the Material Plane of Yava has been born.   In it's branches, Svarog forged countless bridges, that not only tied the Celestial Oak to the powerful energies that surrounded it, but also layed grounds for future celestial planes. As Celestial Oak began to draw on this energies, it began to grow even farther, even higher.   Pleased with their work, the Creators guided their powers towards the crown of the Celestial Oak, each creating their own home Plane.   Zorya, Nicha and Mokosh shaped the ever-changing and wondrous grounds of Dream Valley.   Svarog, Dazhbog, Lada created Wyraj, the endless divine land of light, life and purity.   Perun created Vasenhal, a plane of storms and warrior glory, where celestial guards watches over peace and balance in the Yava.   Prove and Temriaz created the plane of order Ladaria, with the colossal mountain that rose from an infinite sea of holy water.   Dzevana and Ruer created the Wildfields, the plane of nature and hunt, inhabited by all sorts of feral and wild things.   Wishing to be closer to the newlyborn races, god Veles created a small plane of Strange Forest, between the Yava and the Shadowlands.   Still, it was too dark for Yava to have life of its own. So once again, the Godly Blacksmith took his hammer in his hands, and journeyed into the cosmic darkness, starting to build the celestial bodies out of his own flame. Dazhbog, Zorya, Nicha and Mokosh joined him, out of the light of their own essence creating the warm, ever giving Sun, and it's celestial partners - moons Hores and Rudatül.   Once the first warmth of cosmic light reached Yava, gods of nature, the all-seing huntress Dzevana, her wise sibling Veles, the brave protector Perun and wild warrior Ruer set to fill the vast lands and seas with first life - unbridled, diverse and feral. The first storms and rains filled Yava, under it the flora starting to bloom for the first time.   Once it came to bringing the first creatures to the newly formed world, the three gods sent their eternal companion Semargl to run twelth times over all of the Yava skies, shedding small drops of his blood as he ran. And from it, the first inhabitans of the Yava came to be.   Not long after the other gods joined their bretheren, shedding drops of their own blood and from it forming tiny statuets of their children - us.   Then, meaning to bring order to chaotic forces of newly founded world, Prove and Temriaz set their feet on the land, spreading out their hands and putting at ease the chaotic beasts and forces that found their home on Yava.   The last gift came from mother of all light - Lada. She wrapped her vibrant wings over Yava, warming it and its inhabitans in her love and spreading kindness into hearts of all life - present and future.