Proto-Koyanic mythology

The religion of the PAQ people

I will first go through the mythological origins of the world.

At the beginning of the world, there was only a single infinite ocean, called the beginning, kə:x₁mx₂ntx₃ə:mcʰx₂əː, from kə:x₁mx₂n ”beginning” and tx₃ə:mcʰx₂əː, ”ocean”. In addition, there was the Sun god, x₂ə́tʰʊcəm

One day, the Sun god got bored. He decided to start growing a large tree called əx₂stʰx₁tcʰx₂əː (literally the augmentative form of the word tree.) The sun shone into the tree and it grew. However, wind almost brought the tree down. The sun god gave wind a form and told it to stop blowing. And the wind stopped. And so, as the wind gained a form, the wind god was born. Her name was x₁ə́tcəm, derived from the word for wind, x₁ə́t.

As the tree grew, it produced several beautiful fruit. The Sun god harvested them, and ate them. However, he liked one of them so much that instead of eating it he gave the fruit a soul and a form. Thus, ə́x₂stʰx₁tkʰəːŋcəm, the god of forests, was born out of the fruit of a tree.

As time went on, the tree grew higher and higher and thicker and thicker. However, one day, the tree had reached its final height. The Sun god made a world on the upper end of the tree, a world which the tree connected to the ocean below.

All was at peace. The gods had moved to live in the world on the upper end of the tree, ɲ̊ə:ʡpa, literally ”cloud place” or heaven.

However, one day, the Sun god realised that he was going to die one day. Not even gods are immortal, after all. And when he died, he wanted someone to continue his work. And so, he created two sons for himself, the younger tʰə́tx₃əx₁ə́ɰəx₂tci: and the older tʰə́tx₃əx₁ə́ɰəx₂tcʰx₂əː, literally small sibling lord and big sibling lord.

The Sun god brought his sons into the surface of the ocean. He gave them the right to study the world and make new lands. However, he gave his sons a single rule. They were not allowed to return to Heaven before they were old enough.

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However, the brothers tried to climb up the tree and get to lair of the other gods. The tree was half made of ground, and half made of wood. The boys climbed for a while, but the Sun god noticed what they doing. He ordered the Forest god to cut down the tree with an axe. The forest god hit the tree, and it split it half, causing the boys to fall down. The earth landed on the oceans and created the lands. The wood created most trees, plants and animals, expect for fungi, lichen, root vegetables and melons.

The sun god made the boys' power weaker and trapped them on earth. However, he let both of them make their own people. The older brother, liking all the ground around him, created a mysterious race of stone people. The younger brother, left with wood, made the humans. The brothers resided in peace and helped their people from afar.

However, one day, the younger brother grew jealous of the older one. He taught humans, his people, the secrets of fire, language, and fighting. Then he commanded them on rafts and tricked the wind god into moving them.

Humans arrived at the land of the older brother. They conquered lands from the stone people, killing a lot of them. They raided the landscape. The older brother tried to block the invasion by creating mountains. When humans tried to climb them, he tricked the wind god into blowing them off the mountains, to their doom.

This chaos awakened the Sun god. He emerged from the skies and saw his children waging a war. He saw as the younger brother ordered humans to kill the stone people. He saw as the older brother created melons and killed humans by making the melons roll over the humans. This chaos angered him. He took away the powers of the brothers and trapped them inside clumps of stone. He ordered the wind god to make them spin high around the land.

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