And She Laughed

Repeated three times in the Holy Mythos this verse describes our Mother's laughter, the 'white force of Her overabundant joy' that creates all things.

I love the beginning of our Scriptures. There is of course, the infinite depth to them that means every time I return to it, there is another meaning I missed last time, another reference that pulls me in. But before and beyond that, I love the atmosphere of the Creation, the pure magic of the Dawn of the world.

In different versions of the Scriptures, before time began Creation is described as either silver or golden. The original version is most likely silver (see page 66, 'The Primordial Color' in the 2nd edition ECE), but I enjoyed messing around with the colours of this image to kind of get both in there. Water is also important, as the 'first of Her daughters' (maid) arises from the reflection of our Mother. 

The Holy Mythos, v1-10

Before and beyond all things is the Mistress of All Things. When nothing was, She was. Having no solid place that Her feet might rest upon, She divided the sea from the sky, and made a dance of solitary splendour upon the crested deeps. And She was pure active force, and therefore pure delight; and the crashing of the waves was the overflowing of Her joy.

And the white force of Her overabundant joy grew so great that it must take shape in laughter; and Her laughter was the shape of all things. For each peal of Her voice became a silver fragment, broken from the whole and yet complete in itself. And She loved each fragment with all the joy of Her being, and Her hands were wisely skilled. And She stretched forth Her hands and gave a shape to each fragment, and no one was like any other. And She parted the vast waters that there might be a place to set them down. And She laughed. 

And each fragment was filled with Her delight, and therefore was living. And some grew in the deep earth, and were plants and trees; some ran about the ground or flew above it; and those first-made that had no place to be set down became the fishes and the creatures of the sea. And everything was silver. And She laughed. 

And at the edges, where the waters had been parted, they lay still and shallow; and there She cast Her gaze. And She saw an image of Herself, all suffused in the light of love and strength. And She laughed. And as She laughed, the image rose up from the water, and stood before Her. And this was the first of Her daughters. And she was filled with love for Her, and therefore the first creature of Spirit.