Creation of Man
This is an abridged extract from a Eitumite translation of the Kaharuponda. Translation errors might have occurred and bias to suit religious ideals might have occurred, so please exercise caution. Translator's name has been omitted.
In the great chamber of the stars, a woman weaves a great fabric. It is to become the fabric of man. Her white thread is to become our bones. Her red thread is to become our blood and muscle. She is forging man as the child of her cloth. Her fellows bless her creation and bestow upon it four great gifts. First, she bestowed upon her child the knowledge. When her lover came to visit her, he gave it free will. The sun when she came at dawn, gave it the gift of curiosity. And the moon, the very same night, gave it a hunger. But none give her creation immortality.
But not even the divine can create eternal perfection. Evils will lurk amongst their trees and their seas. And still, they are powerless to toy with their creation – their ability to shape mountains at the briefest of glances is their greatest pitfall. And so, these evils corrupt her once perfect creation, but Duhuam is not one to leave her projects – she watches over like a hawk.
As a mother worries, she does to, scheming to help her creations. Guiding heroes of the golden ages, revealing the many wonders of the world. But a mother has to wean a child, and she shall wean humanity of her eternal knowledge. But she does not bid adieu simply and merely take to the position of which she yearned, to guide the dead and watch what became of us but never to interfere.
Back in the great chamber, she weaves again, her lover coming to and fro, ignoring the offerings upon altars and the aromatic smell of herbs. Those herbs and offerings become threads in her next great fabric, the lamb, her daughter, Dayda. With this girl would come her greatest gifts, agriculture and her tapestry of a thousand stories – the Nyema-shengu-yetochi.
I like the thread aspect of this a great deal and can easily see little woven effigies being a thing based on such a myth. That's cool to me, yes. I'm also a fan of how Duhuam cares enough about Humanity to make sure they can fend for themselves in a world filled with dark creatures, guiding here and there.