Cosmic Dragons
When
everything was still the One light, nothing ever happened. The
Star Spirits, wise custodians of the Manifest realms, realized
that if their worlds were to take on a life of their own, the
unity ignorant of its multiplicity had to become a multiplicity
ignorant of its unity. The One had to at least split into Two, and
the interaction of these Two could then give birth to countless
other beings. But no matter how many beings came into existence,
they would always retain the nebulous memory of the primal pair
and always see the world through this filter of polarized
opposites. Even Void and Manifest played upon this primeval
duality.
And
so, in the first act of creation, the Star Spirits laid an egg in
the center of the cosmos, and out of this egg hatched twin dragon
spirits. Thus were born the Chaos Dragon and the Order Dragon; the
first pair of universal deities, the Cosmic Dragons. They
personified dual polarities - equal but opposite - each striving
to perpetuate their qualities and through their eternal flux
creating change that drove the momentum of the universe. But
theirs was not a struggle for absolute supremacy as much as a
harmonious dance. They spiraled around each other like the double
helix of evolution, they bit each other's tails in a never-ending
circle, two halves of one inextricable whole; where one ended, the other would begin.
They
complemented each other, for there could be no creation without
destruction. Even if one of them strayed too far off balance and
tried to usurp control or even destroy the other, so intertwined were they that each extreme
yielded its opposite. Overpopulation brought death and
massive death made room for new life, the latent polarity rose
triumphantly from the ashes of its own collapse. All subsequent beings were
subject to these laws so that no single power could ravage the
world unchecked. The Cosmic Dragons created a race of Earth
Dragons to personify themselves. These were colossal dragons of
half earth and half flesh, capable of sustaining life upon their
bodies, and serving as the homes for the physical incarnations of
the Cosmic Dragons known as the Dragon Twins.