Rocks of Creation
This story was found and translated at the opening of Hearth and Home. It was passed to the library here by Kianan McAylwyn.
There was the mountain, vast and tall and proud. It did pierce the sky and rise and rise to loom over all the round, its protective shadow watching over the valleys and fields below. The shadow of the earth-mountain shaded all in protection.
The Mountain saw that it was too vast for all the pebbles to comprehend, so tall and high she rose into the clouds. So, the mountain sundered within and two lesser mountains rose by her sides to support her and act as ladders to her great summit. One faced inwards, watching across the lands all around, whilst the other – on the coast – looked out to the vast, wide sea.
By the sea, where few did watch, the coastal mountain did weather hard against the seas of time, eroded by forgetful nature. But the other lesser mountain fared better, grinding against the Great mountain to form 3 great boulders to forever stand within and amongst the land-dwellers below. The boulders of strength, support and steadiness remain forever in the valleys below, a guide to the great summit above.
Many lesser boulders came down from the mountainsides, down the great Mountain, to form the foundation stones of the great land and formations. And each boulder called forth a host of stones and pebbles under its guidance.
And thus the stones spread far and wide under the shadow of the boulders, under the great shadows of the lesser mountains, and that greater shadow.
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(OC Author - Paul Martin)