"The One and Only, the God of Primordial Man, is male and female, neither male nor female.
In the beginning, desire reigned above all. It was the first seed of consciousness. The One and Only sought within, pondered deeply, and discovered the chain of existence within nothingness.
He was the god of gods, yet took the form of a woman, to whom original sin was added. From then on came light and shadow, the division of day and night, the distinction between good and evil, the directions, and the division between life and death... Past and future were born from Primordial Man.
Punished for her sin, when the gods held a sacrifice, they laid the offering upon the grass and poured water over Primordial Man, newly born. They made her their sacrifice. Her blood was melted butter, her bones were firewood, her body a delicacy, and her heart a sacred offering.
After the sacrifice was completed, a mixture of clarified butter flowed forth, and the creatures of the villages were born from it. After the sacrifice was completed, hymns, poems, and incantations came into being, and so too were the sacrificial verses born.
When the gods cut Primordial Man apart, how many parts were there to arrange? What was her eye? What was her mouth? What were her arms? What were her legs and feet called?
Her eye was Time, her mouth was the Void, her arms were Strength, and her legs and feet were called Matter.
There were four pillars around the sacrificial fire, and sixteen bundles of firewood. When the gods performed the sacrifice, Primordial Man was bound as an offering to the highest pillar. Her body was carved with curses of eternal damnation, black curses seeped into her wounds, and her blood ran down the Crown of Stephanie..." The gods passed this myth down to humanity to reveal the witch's sin and the harm wrought by curses. The same would hold true tens of millions of years later, when science had replaced magic.
