Saturday 16 February 2013

Myths of our Solar System (5): Venus, catalyst to The Chaos

When the First World was new, the people populating the place had found it almost
completely formed about them. They were begat into privilege, servants bending to their
every whim. But they still had many decisions to make, still much among them to form and
create. In time their society came together- they elected leaders, discovered immortality,
the wizards came into being…

And they also formed couples. Venus became heavily involved in these processes of love
as the matchmaker of the First World. In this role she brought together all the couples she
could, including introducing her twin sister, Mother, to the man, Moon. After many years
of this, her successes saw the sadness in Venus’s eyes and encouraged her to find a man
for herself. In doing so Venus made the worst choice of all.

The man Venus married was cruel and calculating, caring only for her beauty and using
her only for his own gratification. His real love was for power and finding a way of getting
it. In doing so he would use Venus one last time.

As time wore on Venus grew unhappy in her own coupling while becoming jealous of what
she had given to her sister. A mad bubbling began at her central core which expanded
outward, getting ever closer to her skin until it eventually found the surface turning Venus
from a woman who cared for the love and happiness of others and sought to nurture it,
revel in it even, to one who sought to steal it for herself. To take back the gifts she had
given for herself.

And that is when her husband, the monster who now resides below, stepped forward and
used Venus in the plan that would separate Mother from Moon and destroy the world they
presided over. Later, however, she would gain her chance to give something back.

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