Genesis (1)

The story of the generations of human kind.

In the beginning…

…there was only the pure radiant “light” of G-d, the zero state. Within the contraction of the infinite, nothing subtracts from its very nothing-ness (0-1), opening a void, for the sake of something, a vessel, only to be shattered by the light. All things now contain a touch of radiance.

From this spark of light, everything as we know it on Earth was born, via the path of a continuous process of fracturing vessels. A splitting. This goes on, and on, and the Earth is born, and on the Earth many souls, fractured from their eternal beyond. Finally, our kind arrive, infants in an unfinished plan.

Hominids roam the earth for centuries before we arrived. They loved and fucked and fought over the little green forests as they disappeared in the dust of the deserts where they scavenged for dear life. Blessed be the scavengers.

Adm

G-d created the first rational hominid from the soil and named them Adm. Created in G-d’s image, Adm was also the first intersex person, and the Y-MRCA. THEY (G-d) loved Adm and so placed them in the idyllic Garden of Eve in Africa. Out of the ground made G-d to grow every tree that was pleasant to sight, and good for food, and in the midst of those trees was planted the tree of life which gave Adm eternal life to spend happily with G-d, so neither Adm nor G-d would be alone again.

G-d imparted the power of the Word on Adm, the names of all things and insight into the nature of Their creation. Adm was given stewardship over the entire garden, to care for it and to name the many other exotic creatures of air, sea, and land which G-d had created for company. Despite all this, Adm suffered from a chronic case of a lonely heart, this space they inherited from the Lord.

G-d’s messengers the angels could offer only the words G-d gave them, but never relate with the human condition. G-d while present in “spirit”, was absent. There was a space opened with the creation of the universe, which G-d’s endless light could only fracture if ever to touch. Adm was only a shard after all and so only to know the endless light from a distance. Still, G-d knew the feeling of loneliness so infinitely THEY could not stand the pain of Adm.

So taken by loneliness Adm broke into tears. Falling to the fertile soil Adm cried themself to sleep with the smell of longing on their breath. While Adm was asleep THEY did what any other loving creator would have done and liberated Adm from suffering, splitting them in half like clay, and in Adm’s place were born two more reasonable hominids, one male named Kxa and a female named Taa, to share the love of G-d directly with one another.

Kxa and Taa became the garden’s new stewards, renaming the creatures, the trees, and the four rivers that flowed through the garden. G-d loved Kxa and Taa as THEY loved Adm though G-d had special plans for the couple. They were allowed by G-d (through the angels) to eat from any tree in the garden, including the magical tree of life which granted them immortality. However, G-d planted another magical tree within the midst of the garden, the tree of knowledge of good and evil, which G-d forbade them ever to eat from, for G-d warned, “Once you eat from it you will certainly die.”

Kxa and Taa obeyed G-d’s rule until one day; Kxa was off to sleep following an afternoon of love making, and Taa, the more inquisitive of the two was off in the garden exploring on her own. She picked flowers, and fruits from the trees, and ate, and recorded their flavors, scents, and the way they made her feel. She came across the tree of life, and indulged while lying in the warm soil staring up at the moving clouds.

Coincidentally the tree of life stood just a few yards left of the tree of knowledge. She wondered for a moment between cloud watching why G-d had placed this forbidden tree so close to that which was essential to life. Just then a serpent came crawling over to Taa and she was very happy to greet them with a smiling “Hello.” She was taken off guard when the serpent spoke back.

“Hello Taa,” said the serpent.

“A talking serpent?” Taa inquired.

“Did you not know the Creator was boundless?”

“The angels told me the creator is infinite,” replied Taa.

“Did G-d not tell you to eat from any tree in the garden?”

“G-d allowed us all the trees for food except for the tree of knowledge, for if we eat we are told we will die,” Taa replies.

The serpent laughs as it begins slithering about the curvaceous body of Taa, “You will not certainly die for G-d knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like G-d.” And so Taa stood up and looked at the tree of knowledge with eyes that hungered for wisdom. While licking her lips she approached the tree.

“And so the tree is good to eat from,” she remarks as she plucks a piece of fruit and places it to her mouth to take a bite.

Having woken from his nap, and fed on another tree, Kxa was ready for another round in the river. The only problem was he didn’t know where Taa had gone. He searched the garden throughout the afternoon only to find Taa with the serpent consuming the fruit from the tree of knowledge.

“Is this not the forbidden fruit?” Kxa asks.  Taa’s eyes are glowing when she turns to Kxa and responds, “It is the fruit of knowledge.”

“Why are you wearing those leaves by your loins and breasts?” Kxa asks.

“Eat the fruit Kxa, and you shall understand,” she responds.

Kxa is confused in the face but follows as Taa suggests, as he trust Taa. He takes a bite of the fruit, and watches as the forest appears to decay before his eyes along with the serpent’s little feet. He becomes aware of his nudity, and grabs a leaf immediately to cover his genitals.

“You see now,” says Taa.

Through the consumption of the magic fruit of knowledge Kxa and Taa are condemned to be free. All that’s left of the garden is the last of the fruit of life in their blood. It will bless them, and their descendants with exceedingly long life expectancies for generations.

Kxa turns around to scan the desert land he and Taa have found themselves in, and witnesses the faint and fading image of an angel bearing a flaming sword in the distance before what appeared to be the garden. Taa was still in shock, having not yet come down from the high of the fruit of knowledge. With tear soaked eyes she was profoundly touched by the death and decay she witnessed. Where once there was a green paradise, Taa saw the world now for its imperfections, dying and wilting away.

A cool desert breeze blows and they both shiver, noticing the leaves they used to cover their genitals had also dissipated, and so Kxa and Taa found animals, whom they once called friends, to slaughter for pelts. This was no easy task, and they needed to learn hunting from the other hominids, whom they lead thanks to their mastery of language.

The other hominids saw the clothing that protected Kxa and Taa’s genitals, and so imitated their innovation. Unfortunately the other hominids had not developed language like Kxa and Taa. They fought over territory with other groups of hominids, and lived the nomadic life, often on scarce resources.

Kxa and Taa had two children, Cagn, a brave and legendary hunter who would become the next leader of the Admites, and another son named Ochiosa, whom they left out for exposure, due to the lack of food at the time of his birth. It was a heart breaking moment for the Admites but one they felt necessary. Ochiosa was however protected by G-d, and lived in the forest that G-d sprouted for the boy, cared for by angels.

Meanwhile, across the desert the matriarch of another line of speaking hominids was born separate from the Admites. Her name was Hwa. She was the sharpest person yet and fiercely independent. She was born an only child to unspeaking hominids who were the last of their tribe. She never knew of a garden of the flesh, but she had dreamed of a garden of the spirit, and knew this place was greater than the desert.

With the death of her parents she left to travel on her own. She was not a hunter like the hominids who followed Cagn, but she was sharp none the less. Living off scavenging primarily as her parents did, Hwa was able to survive the dangerous beasts while making sure she had sustenance, and fire to sleep by during chilly desert nights.

Hwa encountered many hominids on her way, helping most by curing their ill, clothing them, and helping them to food, though she was alone, for she was the only one she knew who could use language. Intuitively she supposed there would be more somewhere.

She had many children on her way, though of the many she birthed, only her two female offspring were born in the image of G-d with the ability to speak. They were, Coti and Lulwa. When the Admites crossed paths with them, Coti became enamored by the brave hunter Cagn, and so she married him as a young girl.

Hwa and Lulwa however continued to migrate. Hwa had a dream of a lonely Admite witchdoctor abandoned to a fertile forest and so she migrated south from Cagn with her daughter. They followed the image of a phoenix whom appeared to them regularly at dawn until they finally arrived to the forest.

“For my dream was truly a prophecy,” she announces to the heavens where she believes the phoenix had returned to.

There, Lulwa and Hwa meet Ochiosa, the man who appeared in Hwa’s dreams. He is welcoming to the women with accommodations of the forest, good food, and drink. He takes a fondness to Hwa immediately, having never met another like himself who could talk. Hwa is happy to have another to converse with.

After a day of chat between the three, Hwa falls to sleep early, having drank a kind of sweet magic sap Ochiosa makes. While she lays in the crevasse of a tree, her loin coverings are to the side and he sees her vagina. Being unaware of female genitalia, Ochiosa is shocked by the site and takes Hwa’s loins for a wound.

He prepares some medicine from a vine of the forest, and uses this to treat the “wound”. Instead, Ochiosa unintentionally impregnates Hwa with their son, whom they name Luembe, the first Mbuti. Soon after this, the family becomes a second bastion for civilized hominids, adopting those who discovered their forest as kin, and teaching them of the strait path.

Qayin and Ebl

Hominids had always showed instances of violence against one another but with the arrival of the rational Admites and Hwaites, their example and their teachings, internal warfare became rare. The Law of Blood, given by G-d dictated that none shall slay another of their kin, less they face banishment. This most likely meant death as humans required one another to survive. This lead the species more often to work together as the rational hominids had taught them and so their numbers proliferated.

 Murder was a thing of the past it seemed until Ochiosa and Hwa bore their second and third sons, Qayin and Ebl. These two were conceived intentionally, along with two daughters, Aklima born twin to Qayin, and the youngest named Awan. Luembe, being eldest male, was guaranteed to become tribal patriarch.

Lulwa, the eldest female, fled the tribe due to her adopted father Ochiosa’s insistence on her marrying his son Luembe. She went to Asia on her own, and continued her promiscuous behavior there, where she birthed her daughters Ga and Nüwa. Meanwhile Luembe fell in love with a non-speaking hominid, and though his father initially resisted, he eventually gave in and blessed the marriage.

Luembe continued as patriarch amongst sons as Aklima became matriarch amongst daughters. Awan was a sweet soul, and did not much worry about her social status, while Qayin and Ebl seemed to be rivals since they became aware of one another’s existence. They traveled much like their mother had, and formed distinct identities separate from the tribe.

Neither Qayin nor Ebl lived in the way of their parents, or their brother Luembe who remained in the forest. Both Qayin and Ebl became pioneers amongst hominids, creating new methods of survival to stand out. Ebl was a wild man who managed to domesticate animals for use as cattle. Qayin made himself noteworthy for learning to work the land for food.

Their sister Aklima was very beautiful, and desired by many of the tribe, including Qayin and Ebl. The two made offerings to G-d in order to gain favor. For Qayin it was grain, and for Ebl, it was his slaughtered livestock. Aklima however desired only one, who was her brother Ebl, and so he was chosen. 

Ochiosa blessed his children’s love with a ceremonial wedding. Qayin later took on the sweet Awan, but not out of love. It was rather only to have a wife like Ebl, of whom Qayin was jealous.

As the seasons passed, Ebl continued to gain prestige amongst hominids, and so it seemed to Qayin that his offerings were being ignored. Qayin brooded and in private G-d spoke to him. “Why this tantrum? Why the sulking? If you do well, won’t you be accepted? And if you don’t do well, sin is lying in wait for you, ready to pounce. Sin is out to get you, and you’ve got to master it.”

Qayin did not take heed of G-d’s message and so allowed his animosity to swell. To add to injury, Ebl respected not his brother’s land, allowing his flock to freely graze on Qayin’s soil. Qayin had one night had a dream where a shadowy whisperer in the field during a stormy night had told him to slay Ebl with a stone.

The next day, Ebl’s flock had as usual trampled the Qayin’s soil and so Qayin confronted his brother angrily with a stone in hand. “I will kill you,” he shouted, to which Ebl responded, “G-d only accepts the sacrifice of those who are mindful of Him. If you raise your hand to kill me, I will not raise mine to kill you as I fear the Lord of all worlds. I would rather you were burdened with my sins as well as yours.” Qayin’s jealous rage erupted in violence as he slew his baby brother with a stone on that very soil.

The Hwaites and Admites all turned on their family in Qayin, and vanished him from all of Africa. His own father Ochiosa marked him with a cursed scar, in the name of G-d, vanquishing him to the deserts beyond. Lands now belonging to the daughters of Lulwa, and her elder daughter Ga who’s children were numerous, some of witch returned to Africa by the age of maturity.

In absence of Qayin the Hwaites grew large and begin spreading out across the land of Africa as Ochiosa and Hwa made more children. Meanwhile in the land of Asia Qayin’s shame would follow him like his shadow. He had stopped hearing from G-d but now the whisperer visited him in his dreams nightly, though he knew now to ignore him.

Qayin was blessed only with the company of sweet Awan, whom he had now come to value. They struggled in the darkness of the shadows together until they conceived their first child, whom they named Enok. An angel was sent by G-d to inform Qayin and Awan that they and their son Enok would be blessed with a fruitful lineage. Despite the bloodshed, which G-d ensured would not be the last, Enok was a ray of light for Awan and Qayin, and so they thanked G-d for their exile.

(the playlist below partially inspired this short)