Wiping The Slate - Prompt 11

[erulissedances]

 

WIPING THE SLATE

 

 

If IT were capable of making a sigh, the air from that sigh would have moved planets from their orbits. However, SHE knew better than that. HE had it happen before and it possibly would happen again, but not here and not now. In IT's quest for perfection, there were bound to be failures. Nevertheless, SHE had high hopes this time - hopes that were being dashed farther with every rotation.

 

Long ago in the beginning, the cosmic dance had been wonderful. SHE danced with HER siblings as they each formed planets and galaxies, combined energies into stars and populated nebulae. Eventually, however, they all separated to their various systems and settled down to finer details. As satisfying as it was to make a gas giant like Jupiter, there was something rather amazing about making DNA too.

 

HE had patience, infinite patience, and IT was determined to fill the eons ahead with fun and a bit of excitement. Therefore, SHE moved moons, made rings around one planet, and decided the largest planet in her smallest solar system would be gaseous with beings that floated in the many miles of unbroken clouds. For long eons those beings were her favorite ones to watch as they grew societies, then died back, and then grew once more.

 

On the third planet, HE decided to focus on water, so IT caused great clouds to form and rains to fall, eventually making more than two thirds of the planet water. SHE cast genetic building blocks into the waters and over time, creatures populated the seas and were thinking about exploring the land. HE thought about the future. It was time to warm things up and see what could grow on the land mass. While increasing the core temperature and increasing volcanic activity, IT decided the land would look more interesting if it was separated into smaller sections. Later this event would be called "continental drift". One of the major results was the growth of some new species and the die-off of others.

 

SHE did not ignore her other worlds - she still visited all of her various planets as well as the central star. Whenever HE visited the sun, large plumes of arcing heat and materials would follow ITS' path, changing DNA millions of miles away from the star and altering the future pathways of growth.

 

SHE had fallen in love with the dinosaurs - their almost infinite variety and their many adaptations to a world that was untamed. HE would tweak a genetic sequence here, or an adaptation there, choosing some traits and casting others aside. It gave IT great satisfaction to see new dinosaurs populate the earth. However, eventually, SHE decided to terminate them - they had run their course and it was time for a change.

 

Shifting things once again, HE caused several things to happen - climate change, an asteroid, several volcanic eruptions, and other smaller things that would cause the extinction of the beings that had walked the surface of the third rock for eons.

 

Long after the dust had settled, SHE felt it was time to try again. IT subtly changed some chromosomes in some creatures that were showing promise and settled back to watch. HE went back to Jupiter and noticed their favorite cloud riders had changed yet again, but after watching them for long years, SHE decided to leave them alone. They could possibly turn into something quite interesting. IT would check back after one or two millennia.

 

On the third planet again, the experiment had born fruit. Now there were bipedal creatures across much of the land who were using tools, working in groups, and developing cultural landmarks such as language, music and art. If HE had hands, they would have been clapping with glee. This would be fun!

 

After 300,000 years, the new creatures had overtaken the entire planet. They were everywhere! They were boorish, contentious, self-serving and in some cases, simply cruel. There was high culture - music, art, literature and poetry - balancing that, though, was also a disturbing lack of conscience and a tendency for self-serving violence that seemed to run deeply through every pocket of the population.

 

"I was barely gone," SHE thought, while IT looked over the third world. "My large reptiles roamed the planet for 165 million rotations of the sun, and these new creatures will destroy each other before reaching anything close to that. Again, HE sighed. SHE was determined to find the proper entity for this third planet, but the first beings had been unable to rise above the basics of food and survival, and now, this second group was going to self-destruct within a short blink of time.

 

"Maybe it's cursed," IT thought looking sadly at the water-filled world. "Maybe I shouldn't have made a world with so much liquid. If I allow the current beings to self-destruct … "HE couldn't finish the thought. SHE decided to settle down nearby and watch. At least it would keep IT entertained for a while before HE wiped the slate clean and tried once again.

 

 

Comments

[adoptedwriter]

OMG! Wow! What a creation/ elimination story! It kinda explains some things very well. I figure that G-d is truly a "they/them" being a combination of all energies.

[erulissedances]

Thanks. I thought of smaller corrections, but then thought of Gaia and ran from there to the entity encompassed in these paragraphs. I appreciate your reading and your comments.

- Erulisse (one L)

[drippedonpaper]

Being a deity is like being a parent I guess. You do your best and sit back and watch and hope, and hope and hope...

So much yin and yang, good and bad.

I really like your allegory. Very creative!

[erulissedances]

Thank you so much. I really appreciate your reading and commenting.

- Erulisse (one L)

[shirebound]

This is wonderfully creative, and thought provoking.

SHE was determined to find the proper entity for this third planet

May it be so.

[erulissedances]

Thank you so much. We can only hope that HER next try will have greater success.

- Erulisse (one L)

[desdemonaspace]

What an interesting story!

[erulissedances]

Thank you for reading and commenting.

- Erulisse (one L)

[favoritebean_writes]

This is a very interesting narrative of what was, is, and could be. I like the tie in with HE, SHE and IT very much. Nicely written.

[erulissedances]

Oh, thanks! I really appreciate your reading and your comments.

- Erulisse (one L)

[roina_arwen]

I really enjoyed the dimensionality of this, and the different aspects of the Almighty being. Very creative!

[erulissedances]

Thank you so much! I appreciate your taking the time to read and comment.

- Erulisse (one L)

[banana_galaxy]

This was quite the journey of the cosmos! I like how you didn't stick just to Earth, but also explored some of the other things that were going on.

[erulissedances]

It's a big universe, and even our small solar system has to have more going on than just Earth - LOL.

- Erulisse (one L)

[bleodswean]

Funny how this prompt elicited several "creation myths". I wasn't understanding who IT was. The rest was a nice run-through the history of our system!

[erulissedances]

I firmly believe setting any sexual designation on any being of this type is being a bit pushy. I rotated through HE, SHE and IT to give it the broadest possible definition of entity.

- Erulisse (one L)

[bleodswean]

OH!!!! I need to reread this. Thanks for clarifying!

[ofearthandstars]

I love the interaction between the three (am I to assume they are ultimately one and the same?) entities.

It's kinda funny that yours and hangedkay's entries follow a similar arc this week, and I had also had the idea to write along a similar theme, but never got the idea to anything that I felt confident running with. I guess we are all trying to re-envision a world/universe that feels pretty painful right now, and wondering what it could be if things could play out different.

[erulissedances]

Yes, the three are indeed three aspects of a single entity.

I'd like to think that "great minds think alike" - LOL

- Erulisse (one L)

[hwango]

The next ascendant species should definitely be the octopus. I for one welcome our tentacled overlords.

[erulissedances]

I must admit it would certainly be an interesting overlord.

- Erulisse (one L)

[mollywheezy]

Have you read Gail Carriger's books? She is an octopus fan, too. ;)

[dsrmousey]

Very thought provoking. I think the birds are next ascendant species. Man will definitely take itself out of the equation. Peace~~~Desiree

[erulissedances]

I do think that mankind is doing a wonderful job of self-destruction. Birds, of course, as the descendants of the dinosaurs, are indeed the logical next successors, and will probably be far more successful than we ever were.

Thanks so much for your comments and for reading.

- Erulisse (one L)

[marlawentmad]

I really enjoyed your rotation of different pronouns for this sweeping narrative.

[erulissedances]

As I explained to an earlier commenter, I feel it's too limiting to place a singular pronoun for a being powerful enough to be a Creator. My approach to avoiding this was to rotate the pronouns and hope that was sufficient to encompass such a Power.

- Erulisse (one L)

[dadi]

What an interesting take on world-creating :)

[erulissedances]

Thanks so much for reading and commenting. I appreciate it.

- Erulisse (one L)

[mollywheezy]

Excellently written and thought-provoking! I loved your pronoun rotation. It felt very Trinitarian to me. And glancing through previous comments, I certainly agree that gender cannot be imposed on the creator of the universe. :)

[dsrmousey]

I couldn't enter a reply so thought to "hitchike" onto Molly. I thought oK(/I had \i) replied earlier but then couldn't fit it. So anyway, this was a fine piece of word smithing done here. And I enjoyed it very much. <--- not a great example of word smithing. Peace~~~Desiree

[erulissedances]

Thank you so very much. I appreciate your reading and your commenting. *hugs and blushes*

- Erulisse (one L)

[erulissedances]

Thanks so much! I don't even think this BEING is the creator of the Universe. More like an underling, one of many, who have some sections of the Universe under their care. I think there's still something above them, and perhaps above that entity as well. As Universes are infinite, so are those who create them. We, as humans, want to compartmentalize everything. It's not going to be possible with the Universe.

- Erulisse (one L)

[alycewilson]

At least dinosaurs had rules, right? Humans are so... messy.

[erulissedances]

Humans are indeed VERY messy.

I'm so sorry to see that you got a strike this week. It's a group of such talented people, I'm always thrilled to be butting creative heads with all of you.

- Erulisse (one L)