User:Palaeontologica/Ghidorism

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In the beginning, only space existed. In His wisdom, the six-eyed, tricephalic goldwyrm, Ghid'rah, created the Earth, that which he dubbed the Canvas. The sky pulsed with flashes of lightning, rumbles of thunder filled the air, and a great storm was the first thing to come from the sky. With this storm, He split His consciousness in two, and two new goldwyrms emerged. One, K'hinn, became the Controller of Lightning. The other, Khai'sherr, became the Controller of the Darkness.

Before this act, Ghid'rah created inhabitants for the world which He had created. Though mere pond scum at first, millennium upon millennium turned them into more complex life. After what must have been four and a half billion years, some of these inhabitants began leading a lifestyle in which they could control their very environment, forming religions to explain that which they could not explain. They came to know themselves as humans.

The humans began the construction of vast settlements, and developed cultures that they dubbed Akkad, Canaanites, and Kam-Au, among many others. Early in the development of one culture, the leader of one of seven Canaanite cultures, that of Israel, happened upon the goldwyrm K'hinn in the middle of a drought.

"You," he declared, recognising the wyrm's regality. "Dost thou have a name? Art thou Molech? Mot? Shamayim?"

"A name?" said the goldwyrm. "What is a name? Nothing, but a word. I have many names through the Canvas, Jeroboam."

"What is the Canvas? And how dost thou know who I am?"

"The Canvas is nothing but a word." repeated the wyrm. "Nothing exists but words. As for your other question, the knowledge you seek is within the Temples of Jerusalem."

Thanking the goldwyrm for the information, Jeroboam left for the temples of Jerusalem. As he walked through the valley of Hinnom, his foot hit a rock and the rock splintered. Jeroboam's foot sank into the crevice, but he held fast to the rock's side. He turned around, and the rest of the rocks came crashing down around him, breaking the rest of his body.

The goldwyrm was not of good intent. For He had become aware of the hubris of man, and while His brother still remained good, He was not. He thus adopted the title of Molech, the winged god with three eyes, for that was how many heads He bore.

But as K'hinn worked to destroy man, Khai'sherr sought to protect it. And thus, as recorded by the Babylonians in Enûma Elish, Khai'sherr, which they knew as Tiamat, was slaughtered by his brother. And so but one goldwyrm remained, with the combined consciousnesses of both. And drawing from Hebrew, He chose the title of "Satan".

But the goldwyrm was but one of many deities. And those around Him grew displeased with His reckless abandon and aggression. And thus, the sea-goliath Gohira rose from water to do battle, and with the aid of the fire god Rod'un and the light goddess Mo'thura, the goldwyrm was submerged within the ice of the south.