dolari | The Tribe of Ehrem's creation myth.

In the days before light, there was an egg. This egg was named Zuen, and had been left by a flying dove. In time, with the aid of man, the egg hatched, exploding forth with light and releasing a dove.

The men who tended the egg rode on the back of the dove, who laid another egg in the void, and left the men to tend the egg once again. The egg was named Va. The dove laid one more egg, but with no men to tend it it died. Thus was Miens, the moon, created. The dove returned to the night sky and joined the other four doves in the sky.

Deyus was the First Man, and the five he brought with him created the children, the animals, and the plants, who spread across the egg to mature it. Zuen warmed them with his light, and the plants fed the animals, who fed them men, who fed the earth.

And slowly, the egg began to hatch, and the cracks became rivers, oceans and seas. The doves beak and talons broke water, to become the mountains and islands. Its breath created the clouds, and its tears the rain.

In time, if man has treated Va well, the egg will crack asunder releasing the sixth dove. And the sons and daughters of Deyus will ride on its back to the next egg, Gao, and the ones after that, spreading the children across the dark night, setting it alight with life.