The Story of Beginning

In the beginning there was chaos. Two gods came across it and could not
decide what they should do with the chaos. One wanted to form order out
of it but the other wanted to get rid of the chaos and start afresh from
emptiness. They agreed to wrestle to settle the issue. They wrestled for
a while, but neither could get the upper hand.

They were at a loss: they could not know whether to work on the chaos they
had or to unmake it and start from emptiness. They relayed their troubles
to a god even older than them known as Aran, which means 'the first', who
thought for a while, and then proclaimed: "If you can not decide between
creating order or unmaking, you shall do neither. You shall work on the
chaos, without changing its nature". The two gods protested, but Aran
stood fast behind the decision.

Eventually the gods acquiesced and got to work. They shaped wondrous
things out of the chaos, like the stormy seas or the mountains which
sometimes spew out fire. They made tiny things out of the chaos, like the
way a leaf flutters down as it falls from the tree. And they made us, who
all we might try, are fundamentally part of this same chaos. We know these
two gods as Etis which means 'everything' and Vetis which means 'nothing'.

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