The Million and First Winter

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The Million and First Winter
Justin Ellis

In the beginning, God, and all the rest of the world, was to be found only in an egg. A tiny black egg, smaller than the smallest grain of pepper. God did break free from his shell, and out with him came the heavy and the light; the Earth and Heaven.

In the beginning, there was very little of the world to speak of. Heaven was less meager than the smallest wisp of smoke and Earth was smaller than the smallest grain of soil. Yet Heaven and Earth grew tenfold whenever God slept, and God grew with them.

Soon, Heaven and Earth grew to enormous proportions, and God stood erect between them so that they would never touch.

With time, God's body withered and died. His blood became the rivers and the seas, his hair became the wheats and the grasses, his left eye became the moon and his right became the sun, his muscles became the soil and the fleas that lived on his body became the humanity and the bears and the birds and the fish and all the dominion of creature.

Yet, God's soul did not die. His soul found rest in Heaven because it was clean, and the Earth, with his body's rot, was foul.

God looked down on the Earth and saw it was a haze. And so, God separate the dark from the light and called them night and day, and it was good.

God looked down on the Earth and saw that humans lived too easily. And so, God separate humans into Man and Woman so they might make their time wandering and searching for something greater. God made women weak, and God made men weak. And it was good, and it was bad.

Men and women, forever with bottomless want, became corrupt. Humanity made war and pollution and other great waste so that they might fill their bellies with material pleasure - because it was easier that way. After a thousand years of watching this decadence, with great anger toward humanity, God sent his messenger to smash the human things, and smash them it did. And after a thousand years of human rebuilding, God sent his messenger again to teach humans of virtue. And after a thousand years of teaching men and women virtue, they were still corrupt. Thus, every thousand years God sent his messenger to smash human culture to dust.

While God's servant crushed human means and human ends, he could not crush human thoughts and human ideas. Humanity recalled its endeavors of the past, even in the rubble of the present. And so, men and women built tools -weapons- with which to fight. Nine hundred and ninety nine times humanity used the finest fruits of the minds to fight God's messenger - and nine hundred and ninety nine times they fail. It was on the thousand's battle - a thousand years since their last battle, a million years since their struggle against God began, mankind killed God's messenger.

So, the next year, humanity then set out to kill God, and kill God they did.

So, God was dead.

Copyright Justin Klitgaard-Ellis, 2005