Ronja is the Deity of Earth, the Creative one. They are called Azaki, or “pig” for the way they rooted valleys into the beautiful volcanic rock that had been laid down by Bonja, deity of volcanic fires. There was a time before life covered the land, and nobody at all liked Ronja, but they seemed not to care. They were the deity of earth and life, and nothing could stop their mission of verdancy, of decorating the earth with the valleys and plants and animals or the Earth. They were only frustrated with how their works of creation were endlessly covered over by Bonja’s work: flows of destructive lava.
Ronja was out one day long ago, striding great strides and stooping to gauge valleys into the hardened flows of basalt, when they came upon a fresh flow barely hardened. Delighted, they crouched like a pig to dig in and root out a canyon, to fill it with a water-stream and verdant life. But they looked up then and saw the goddess Bonja, sitting atop a cooling flow.
Bonja was beautiful and desirable to them, and they forgot all about the canyon. Let it wait until later! The goddess inflamed Ronja’s passions, and they were immediately aroused. They approached her, and she ran off. So the chase began, Bonja stepping and stomping and dancing through the mountains of Brohd Zellor, leaving pools and flows of destruction and lava in her footsteps, and Ronja all the while chasing and leaving seeds of verdant life behind him.
Finally Bonja gave up. She turned to meet Ronja. The two of them coupled then, and their union was harmonious and good. Bonja made peace with Ronja’s rooting and planting life in her flows, and Ronja accepted the lava that periodically destroyed their own work. The work of one made possible the work of the other.
They are lovers to this day, coming together when they wish, sewing seeds of creation and then burning down that from which they grew. Their lives are consummation, action, and re-consummation, forever. They are part of the great divine balance of the holy deities, and their work is immanent among the mountains, and in the stout dwarven heart.
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