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Establishment of Light and Chaos
In the time before the gods there was a great chaos, an unrelenting, sufficating chaos. Time had no measurement, and so everything existed all at once, and also never. There was nowehere to be, and nowhere to go, a state of being without a state to be. A great light reached down onto the world, sheilding those who were under it from the great chaos. Nobody was there to be under it, and so the light gave a peice of itself to the earth, and born from it was Retena, godess of life. Ratena made plants and animals, she carved flowing rivers, she built the mountains, and from the mountains, the first people. The chaos was wrathful and bitter, and so a great spirit from it was born. The spirit, born of chaos, had no name, jealous of those born in light, those named. He brought hate and war to those who lived under the light, taking them from the guidance of the light. From the light came the god Enshi to protect it. The spirit of chaos battled many times with Enshi, but each time he would drive it back further, etching the path of new life for Retena. As the spirit of chaos was pushed back it only grew more hateful, and it drove the people of the light to madness and treachery. When Enshi was fishing at a riverside, a man named Jutatsi, driven to madness by the spirit of chaos, drove a spear into his chest. The chaos of Jutatsi bound itself to the body of Enshi, his body became a mountain spouting smoke and flame. Jutatsi's madness brought ruin upon the people in the light. The spirit of chaos took from the madness-ridden Enshi, his name. Without his name, Enshi's body fell to the full influence of Jutatsi's Madness, and the once-man Jutatsi became the arbiter of flame. The spirit gave itself the name Enshi, but the light's soul lived on within it, and so when he did, chaos was split in two. They became Enshi of the light and Enshi of chaos, and so to decide who should get the name, the two fought. Part of one-whole, split by equal forces, they were so evenly matched neither of the one could win. So there they stayed, locked in combat, refusing to let the other win. Retena used both the light and the chaos of Enshi to create new life and new earth. When the earth was complete Retena went back to the light, she asked that time may run like one of her rivers so that chaos may be predictable. The light conceded, and so from the sky decended spirits who bound themselves to man. The spirits guided them on the path of time, so they would know when past, present, and future were. The spirits warned the people to not let time controll them, but to use it to make sense of the world and to prevent another great chaos.

The Arumin