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The Story of Beginning
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In the beginning there was chaos. Two gods came across it and could not
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decide what they should do with the chaos. One wanted to form order out
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of it but the other wanted to get rid of the chaos and start afresh from
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emptiness. They agreed to wrestle to settle the issue. They wrestled for
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a while, but neither could get the upper hand.
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They were at a loss: they could not know whether to work on the chaos they
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had or to unmake it and start from emptiness. They relayed their troubles
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to a god even older than them known as Aran, which means 'the first', who
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thought for a while, and then proclaimed: "If you can not decide between
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creating order or unmaking, you shall do neither. You shall work on the
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chaos, without changing its nature". The two gods protested, but Aran
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stood fast behind the decision.
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Eventually the gods acquiesced and got to work. They shaped wondrous
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things out of the chaos, like the stormy seas or the mountains which
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sometimes spew out fire. They made tiny things out of the chaos, like the
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way a leaf flutters down as it falls from the tree. And they made us, who
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all we might try, are fundamentally part of this same chaos. We know these
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two gods as Etis which means 'everything' and Vetis which means 'nothing'.
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