The first humans were born from the tears of the giant eye of what was once a god which came from somewhere deep in space. They piled up in a mountian until it reached the floating eye and they could survive the fall. There is now at that mountain of bones with countless ghosts flying through the air like weather and a holy city is built upon the mountain called Lacrimae the city of the tears of god

I was not expecting to read about a literal mountain of corpses today

The idea came to me in a cryptic dream at 2 am. Literally got out of bed and started typing

Holy shit that is metal

So fucking cool

I enjoy the idea of the creation myth within our own myths to be as ambiguous and full of conflict as our own real life lol. Even if a story and plot is specifically tied to the origin of the world, like yours seems to, having a healthy dose of contradicting ideologies is healthy and provides a sort of relatability and grounding for the story. No matter how high fantasy it might be. Maybe there are religions that believe in The Great Editor and He/She provides the gateways between the silver sea, and instead they call him Gulthorg the destroyer of lands and its a very primitive tribe with a deep although metaphorical understanding of how the universe works But has like 60% of it right, and the other 40% is discovered through the telling of your story. For my own world building I have 3-4 main religions and I am honestly not trying to get bogged down in each ones entire religion and creation myths, but provide a few guidelines for how followers of each one might behave and believe. All of them are plot devices really, so one is super conservative the other is super liberal and the other two I just throw ideas at that would fit a narrative. And I think using that guideline provides flexibility but some direction in where I want to take specific stories or themes or plotlines.

Well now, when it comes to how this whole dang flimflam world of ours got kicked off, my kinfolk back in the old country had us a plum powerful legend 'round those parts. The way Granny Tater tells it, once't upon a time long before time knew its own name, weren't nothing nowhere nohow 'cepting black emptiness and silence so thick ya could knit a sweater from it. But then one unsuspectin' day, that void up and BURPED. I ain't foolin' neither! Now this weren't just no ordinary belly-rattler neither - this here creation burp rattled through that abyss with a reverberatin' blast so almighty, it spat out bits n' pieces of firmament that stuck together! Chunks of meadow here, a wodge o' water there, couple bushes, boulder or three, all cemented by that first colossal COLOSSAL cooooollllooosssaallll.... makes wide gesture with arms And that thar is how our world and everything flappin' about on it first got whooped into glorious being! So next time yer standin' on solid earth, watching cotton candy clouds drift o'erhead as critters chirp merrily around ya - why, you can thank that primordial bit of belly business from the black emptiness what birthed us all! Now pass me them onion fritters and let's have us a ponder on that pip of a creation myth, hmm?

Wonderful story telling!

i really love your diction!

You will not believe how happy I am about the creation of this post. Truth be told I was looking for people's religious mythos because I don't have many myself

In my world, The Great Being made the world and then fucked off

Sigma Great being.

-create 1st generation of humanity -refuse to elaborate further -leave

Deism. Hell yeah lmao

Giant Magical Big Bang went after the ''usuall' one and created the All-God Vivus(yes i am that unoriginal with names) Vivus created a couple of planets but his favourie planet that is the center of the story is a planet 'Lucis' that was created from the magic and space dust, after that Vivus created Celestials, gigantic space creatures that spent millenia creating life on the Lucis. Millenia in the future and old celestials are gone to no-one-know-where and their children New-Celestial are way less powerfull way smaller entities that lives among all living things, each Celestial is represented by constellation on the sky. And also by mysterious ritual, Vivus was killed by a unkown mortal, and the decaying body of All-God gave life to the long line of new Gods, so allmost each continent of Lucis has their own Pantheon of Gods

My world was crafted by two Dragon Gods born of the two sundered halves of the Dragon God Io. Its universe was born from the corpse of the First God when the Great Old Ones killed It, and it's believed that when the Universe is finally destroyed by the Great Old Ones, It will be reborn from the ashes.

The Kuva founded the Elemental Universe, formed the five planets, and granted life. Supposedly.

Literally, 2 gods willed the multiverse into existence just so they could tear the multiverse apart in their wars. One God did it to best the second, the second did it for shits and giggles.

There was a Big Bang, and also gods. The Big Bang created the Colossals, and the gods created the universe. Stars, planets, everything. How much is known about Colossals varies from planet to planet, though most don’t know about them at all (yet).

There are many cultural variations of the story, but these are the parts most agree on: Caelum (Sky) fell in love with Terra (Earth) and gives her the stars as a gift. These stars became sparks, essentially a human's soul. Terra learned that she could cultivate these sparks to make them brighter, and began sending them back to show Caelum what she had done with his gift. This began a cycle of them giving to each other: the stars became new life, and upon death, those lives became bigger and brighter stars. Caelum fell even more deeply in love with Terra, and every night, you can see his eye watching her (the moon). But Solis (Sun) was jealous of their relationship and sent his harsh rays to challenge these sparks so that they would not grow brighter. This is why humans have so much hardship. Those who succumb to this hardship and become corrupted as a result are taken by Solis upon death, becoming more fuel for the raging sun, so that they never return to the stars. Tl;dr - The sky and the earth fell in love and had babies

In the beginning, there was Nothing. Not merely the absence of things, but a great, primordial Void; for though it was Nothing, it was not empty. There came something approaching a 'time,' when something changed. Part of the Chaos split apart, and the gap twisted and coiled until it was a great serpent. That which had crossed that gap, flitting and fluttering, resolved into a great Heron. The Serpent and the Heron looked upon each other, and called each other brother and sister, the wise Serpent Yingwhi, and the brave Heron Mannu. But, though the siblings had each other, they were otherwise alone in the Darkness. So, they explored their new thing called 'existing,' and learned to create more Things that did so. They made many things, and the sound and warmth and light of them all disturbed the vast emptiness of the Nothing. So the Nothing objected. A chorus of unnumberable silent voices, at once the entirety and an insignificant fragment of the Chaos, demanded that the siblings cease, and allow their creations to sink back into Nothingness. The siblings objected, and fought to protect their creations, but it was not without cost. They could not protect all of them, not as they were. So Yingwhi proposed a plan. They would create a safe place, a place where the Nothing would be kept out, so that their creations could exist and grow and flourish. They would make a Home. But the things they made new were weak. The only thing strong enough to withstand the Nothing were they, themselves. So, to Mannu's dismay, his sister sacrificed herself, her body fracturing and expanding from a Serpent into a great Tree. So, he tended to this Tree, watching as within it, their dreams came true. Reality grew, and changed, and evolved, new things and ideas being born and learning themselves. And so, Mannu perches atop the Tree's highest bough, smiling tearfully down, as he knows his sister's sacrifice was not in vain.

That's incredible, heartbreaking too. Having your godlike beings be animals and the nothing like this destructive force is pretty cool too.

It's based on comparative mythology. A lot of cultures have a conflict between a culture hero and a great water-associated serpent be part of or just after their creation story; and one very, very old creation myth has some sort of bird or other animal diving to the sea floor and bringing up a piece of mud that became the land. Combine the two with another old creation myth, about a pair of twins, turn the primeval ocean into a void as a modernist flair, and it seemed like a perfect basis for my setting backstory.