I've just skimmed through the Creation Myth on the Old Lore D&D thread, and I don't like it. It's too Classical Mythology. Apparently, no electric first sun. No red glow, no golden age for Mankind. It also reminded me of the Forgotten Realms creation myth, which also makes no sense.
I'd rather do a creation myth based on the Electric Universe theory. Where the Oerth, it's first sun, and it's first moon were created in a cosmic thunderbolt (yes, this is the cutting edge theory).
Believe you me, in light of the Electric Universe, the Biblical Creation Myth makes a whole lot more sense when you put two and two together. (It also helps to know the first myths of the Golden Age). Ahem, it will be an ambitious article.
If you have a different story you'd like to share with us, by all means do so.
I'm not sure it's fair to expect that something a fan wrote over 20 years ago would completely fit your preferences today. It's fine if it doesn't, but just write something else and it will be just as valid.
I always thought Rich's creation story was fine—"all the gods are descended from Beory, the mother goddess" is an admirably efficient way to get the job done without overcomplicating things. Creation stories in fantasy worldbuilding do tend to get overreliant on "x mated with y, and begat z" which I think... often feels very arbitrary when applied to the Greyhawk pantheon. Like, "Pelor joined with Beory, who gave birth to Obad-hai" is a fine thing for the Flan to believe but also locks Pelor in as the patriarch of the gods, which unbalances the pantheon in a certain direction, alignment-wise, which is something to keep in mind.
I can see the appeal of just dispensing with all of that and sticking with "they all had the same mom through divine parthenogenesis, the end". It's not exactly the direction I went with, but I get it.
Thanks. Twenty years ago, I discovered Youtube and started watching the Thunderbolts channel. I felt like I discovered something so profound, it was like I had become a kid again.
The story will be based on evidence from deep space. And myths from the Earliest civilizations. I got a wishlist of some books I'd like to buy from Amazon during December. Including The Case of the Turquoise Sun by Ev Cochran. I've also have a book on Sumerian mythology and one on Egyptian mythology so I can construct my story.
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