The Cosmos
Beyond the boundaries of our realm there lies the void. Vast, endless even, it is within this wild space that all the cosmos is contained. It is said that countless eons ago, in the great sea of chaos that the void is, three eggs emerged. Inside one were birthed the twin gods Gingel and Gennon.
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Now it is not a story to tell here, but through great strife and suffering, Gingel shattered the egg and scattered the matter of creation. In her grief at what her brother had destroyed, Gennon sought to recreate what she had lost from her home inside the egg. To achieve this aim, she smashed the other eggs of creation. The first of these gave birth to the heavenly realm and the second, the hidden realm of the dead.
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The heavenly realm is a place of light and purity, of intensities and extremes, great riches and abundance, immense power and intense strife. It was here that were born the Belithelon, the gods of the first generation.
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The hidden realm, by contrast, is a dun place of shadows and darkness, rich in its own way, it reaps the harvest of the shades of the fallen. In this place was born Sem, the great serpent, and Phenmoph the lord of the dead.
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These new realms, however, were not enough to satisfy the urges of Gennon. It was only with the capture and sacrifice of Gingel, that she was able to build a world with which she was content. Using the matter of his very being, she planted the sapling that would sprout into our own world, Kolgennon.
The Cosmos as it is understood by the followers of Kunpit of Thelonigul
How these three realms exist within the void and interact with each other it is impossible for us to say, truly knowing only what we can experience within Kolgennon. It is a much speculated upon subject within the philosophical schools, some insisting on a layered approach, and others many different configurations. An amorphous whole has been proposed by those early men of learning, then discarded by those who came afterwards. Others have suggested a series of concentric circles. The great master’s explanation though is one which I feel holds the most weight. Kunpit of Thelonigul recognised that any description would be imperfect and at best an estimation. However, for ease of explanation he encouraged his followers to envision an expansive circle, within which there are many layers. Outside of the circle, there is the void, the great empty chaos from which Gennon wished to escape.
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The first layer within this shape is that of the heavenly realm, forming something of a canopy over us. At the bottom, pushed against the void, is the hidden realm, its rivers snaking out like roots burrowed into the earth. Our own Kolgennon then would be the trunk of this construction, surrounded by the other layers, protected, but also forming the conduit between the two, through which the flow of matter and energy dispersed by Gingel’s sacrifice. It is this which makes our world so vibrant. In times past, when the Cosmos was in its first blooms, that traversing between these plains was a simple thing for the gods. It is perhaps not so easy now as the world has matured, but still the heavenly deities descend from Dzottgelon and the hidden one reaches out from his dread realm.
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Tekolger, this is the image you must bear in mind as I describe to you the people’s and place of Kolgennon. For it is the construction of the cosmos which set the boundaries of our reality and is the grounding upon which all else follows.
Rusosu Polriso's account of the creation of the Cosmos