Beginning

Thought the various cultures and religions of Chaia vary greatly in their beliefs, there is a common thread when it comes to their cosmology. Nearly all sacred texts find the beginning of their story set in a world in which the sun, the stars, the earth, and the seas already exist. The various gods of Chaia are introduced onto this scene in manners that differ wildly, but this initial backdrop is remarkably consistent across the continent.
There are some things that can be gleaned from the ancient texts of Guwawaism, one of the few religions that speaks of times before the gods, but much of the knowledge of the time before the appearance of the deities had been lost, even before the Dragon Kings and their reign of fire.
This commonality has led to a great deal of academic speculation. Unlike the agreement shared between cultures with reference to the beginning scene of the world, the implications of this shared beginning are hotly debated.
One camp uses this standard myth as evidence supporting the eternal nature of the world. They posit that the world has existed from eternity past, and that the gods and the mortal races are just blips on an infinite timeline.
Others use this as evidence of a world-consciousness, a sort of divinity that under-girds all of reality and the thoughts of which all sentient life is nothing more than a manifestation of.
Still others believe that the consensus is nothing more than an illusion, a conspiracy undertaken by the gods in order to keep the mortal races in the dark with respect to some critical truth that is revealed by the true events of creation. A sub-sect of this group believe that the uniformity is the doing of the Dragon Kings, who they believe eroded history in order to set themselves up as the new gods of Chaia.
There are also those who look to this as proof that there are beings which even the gods worship; that the pantheons of the mortal races have pantheons themselves. Unlike the next camp, this belief is more understandable from the point of view of the Chaian's worldviews. There is, however, some doubt about the existence of such figures, largely centered on the fact that if the gods have gods, one might expect humans to have worshipers as the next link in what begins to look like a chain. No such worshipers seems to fly in the face of the assertion that it's "gods all the way down."
A final camp sees in this shared myth the handiwork of a Creator God who formed even the gods of Chaia. Not a pantheon, as the preceding position posits, but a singular deity who sits above all of creation. This theory is generally regarded as the most far-fetched of the possibilities. In the face of the power of the gods of Chaia's champions, it seems impossible that there could be a God of gods who is as high above the deities who bless the paladins and cleric as those deities are above the common folk. And if there were such a God, He would be deserving of all authority, honor, and obedience simply because of who He is, a thought which seems very appalling to the people of Chaia, who mostly view the gods as being tolerable as long as they're helpful.

Spread

The common beginning of Chaian religions is widespread knowledge, though few outside of academic circles care to ruminate on its meaning. What is slightly less common knowledge is the reason why the gods do not address the matter of the beginning and be done with it. According to the followers of Sorutriddan, the gods are bound from discussing matters prior to the day they signed a contract written by Sorutriddan, Froitruk, and Tuuk Taumungck. This contract also established the rules of divinity, such as granting spells to clerics and paladins, and not being able to physically manifest on Chaia during the current age.