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Heterodox Genesis

at the beginning earth was a place uninhabitable to any living thing, it was nothing but a furiously burning wandering fireball in an immeasurable open space while wandering in space, however, hit by the meteoric showers, bumped into planetoids, and from its own gravity the earth gradually lost its surface heat and became a gigantic piece of rock covered with the great many wrinkles in order to survive, the living thing cannot afford to lose time any more in this darkness of unknown beginning or inconceivable end, it must find a place to settle and bring new life into the world, came and clung to the surface of the rock and struggled to hold onto it one day, when a cry of pitiable life tore the standstill time into pieces because it was unable to bear the time that is infinitely quiescent any longer, it echoed in the space and returned to earth as a dim light in that light the sighs of the living thing heaped up high and became air, in that gleam the tears of the animated thing came together and became waters when water swelled to overflow it became lakes, rivers and seas and when air became heavier it raised itself to a wind, and when wind passed through the surface of earth it turned into vales, hills and clouds life began with great struggles and confirmed by quickening in the darkness and echoing heartrending cry, though grew while calling the sea a mother and the mountain a father, and conceived meaning of lots of phenomena: why the rivers flow and clouds drift, dews on the grasses change into fogs and finally dissipate, the stars come to visit the lakes and kiss to form ripples at night the seed of arrogance grew in the heart of this creature spreading rapidly among the creatures living in the surface of the earth and when his arrogance reached to the heaven, the creatures threw stones in the seas, set fires on mountains, while boasting with those words: “we conquered world, the world is under our feet” hence the earth surged by a raging water, and the windstorm rose to shake the rocks in the mountains violently nonetheless, the creature did not introspect his own detestable deeds but continuously acted in a lordly manner throwing his chest out as before, though enjoying saying this favorite phrase: “this age is a corrupted age! this age is a degenerate age!”

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