Creation Myths of the Elves: The Wood Elves

The Creation Myth of the Elves of Quel'Lathor

The Elves of Quel'lathor are very primitive.  more primitive than other elves, especially the eladrin.  The world view of the Elves of Quel'lathor is simple -- every being has a spirit, every living thing is alive.

The Quel'lathori teach thus:
In the beginning, there was Spirit Father and Earth Mother.  Spirit Father exists above, while Mother Earth lives below.

One day, Mother Earth complained to Spirit Father that she was barren of Life and needed some company.  So Spirit Father made some plants and planted them into Mother Earth and commanded them to multiply.  And Mother Earth was happy.  Another day, Mother Earth complained to Spirit Father that she was lonely.  So, Spirit Father created all the animals from the majestic lion to the creeping bug.  And Mother Earth was happy.

Another day, Mother Earth said that the animals and the plants were unable to talk.  She complained to Spirit Father that she had no one to talk to.  Spirit father explained that he did give speech to the animals and plants, but Mother Earth complained that they were incapable of reason.  Spirit Father said he was capable of creating things that talk and reason, but forewarned Mother Earth that they will be a burden.  Mother Earth didn't care . . . she wanted beings that were capable of what Spirit Father was able to do.

So, Spirit Father relented and took clay from Mother Earth and Light and made the Elves out of the clay and dirt of Mother Earth.  He first made the Eladrin, and to these He gave the power of Creation.  But the Eladrin didn't care one wit about Mother Earth.  And Mother Earth complained that the Eladrin were too much like Spirit Father.  So Spirit Father tried again and made the Quel'Thalori -- the High Elves.  The High Elves at first listened to Mother Earth but soon began to be puffed up in pride and their own vain imaginations.  And Mother Earth complained that the Quel'Thalori was too vain and too narcissistic to listen to her.  And so Spirit Father made the Quel'lathori -- mixing more Mother Earth than the other two.

And that is why the Quel'lathori are closer to Mother Earth than the vain Quel'thalori and the Eladrin.  We are the chosen people of Mother Earth.  We listen to her and are her most favored children.

Conclusion: even the Wood Elves are narcissistic and vain.  This is the creation myth that separates the Wood Elves from the Eladrin and the High Elves.  It's the current creation myth taught by the druid hierarchy.  However, the shamans teach an earlier creation myth about how Mother Earth and Father Sky made the Elves from clay but animals are their favored children and are to be treated with respect.  Some of the druids break from tradition and teach that all races are sons and daughters of Mother Earth and Father Sky.  Just that the Wood Elves choose to live a life close to Mother Earth and Nature because its simpler to live in such a way.  To them, Mother Earth and Father Sky provide them with simple abundance, and their animistic beliefs allow them to give respect: thanking a game animal that they killed, or taking water from a stream they often express their gratitude.

Next: The Creation Myths of the Orcs, Every Orc Tribe has their own Creation Myth. 

Creation Myths of the Elves: The High Elves

The High Elves have three creation myths.  One from the Fair Elves, one from the Pelagasiri Elves, and one they created themselves.  A fourth Creation Myth was created by High Elven Philosophers later to show more unification.

The Tale of the Sun God, the Moon Goddess, and the Night

This High Elf creation myth comes from the Fair Elves. The tales deal with the Sun God Corellon Larethian and the Moon Goddess, Sahanine Moonbow.  A fourth Actor -- the Voice in the Night; completes the Triadistic view of the Fair Elves.

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In the Distant Past, there was Chaos.  But Chaos was all and nothing.  Chaos wanted to comprehend itself so it gave birth to its children, the Cosmos, the Stars, the Goddess Eurynome, and the Cosmic Serpent Cosmigon.  Chaos also gave birth to Love, Order, and Light.  Eurynome flitted through the Cosmos and Cosmigon chased the maiden.  However, Cosmigon caught Eurynome and encircled her tightly in its coils.  After a time, Eurynome turned herself into a swan and flew free.  In time, she laid eight eggs.  One of which was the Sun, another the earth, and a third the moon.  And then she flew away.

The Cosmos smiled upon the earth, Arborea, and the two were attracted to each other.  They loved each other and through their union Arborea gave birth to Corellon Larethian and Sahanine Moonbow.  Being the Son, the Cosmos gave Correllon dominion over the Sun.  And being the Daughter, the Cosmos gave Sahanine Moonbow the Moon.  However, a third being was born from Arborea's and the Cosmos' union.  A second daughter named Monanie.

Cosmos then abandoned his little family.  It was at this time, though, that Corellon Larathian had to choose among his sisters to take as his wife.  He took Sahanine Moonbow [pictured] to be his wife, and Monanie became jealous.  At this time, the pair called out among the souls that were birthed out of Chaos to see who will become their mortal sons and daughters.  But Monanie was angry and demanded that she would force everyone to be right and good.  She lured many after her with her flattering words so that she could unseat Sahanine.

Thus began a brutal war in the Heavens which caused Monanie to be cast out into the Night.  Hence she became the voice in the night.  Then Sahanine and Corellon travelled down to the Earth and fashioned elves out of red clay, made them flesh, and then breathed life into them the souls of the elves.  And to this day, Corellon and Sahanine watches over us, guiding us to the right while the Voice in the Night whispers to us to tempt us to evil. 

[Luminari myth]




The Myth of the Pelagasiri
 The Gods created the Heavens after deciding that they want to play a game.  The Gods created the World [Galatea] and filled it with the Spirits of Life, Fire, Water, Wind, and Earth.  The gods, having decided that plants should be on the earth, put plants on the Earth and ordered them to multiply.  The gods then created the animals and ordered them to multiply also.  As a result, the gods decided that they were bored with just having animals and plants so they made forms after their own appearance out of rocks and dust.  After this was done, the Gods felt that the work was good, and then withdrew to allow us to play out the game.

The first of the elves was Pelagus.  Pelagus taught the us how to hunt, how to gather, how to make tools, and how to make a simple garment out of animal skins.

[Pelagasiri Tradition]


The Myth of the High Elves

The High Elves myth is recounted as such --

The Gods are these: Aetherios the Sky God, Chthon the Earth God, and Oceanas the Ocean God.  The three gods decided to create the world and so the three came together.  Chthon formed the Earth, Oceanas the World Ocean, and Aetherios the Sky.  And so they made the world by uniting their bodies as one and splitting their own souls into infinity to make the souls of the World.

From their bodies, came forth the Gods, the Giants, the Fairies, the Nymphs, and the Monsters.  Then the Gods gave birth to a second generation of Gods of which the God Daltos was Chief.  Then the New Gods made war with the Old Gods and won.  Not to be outdone, the God Monster Typhon made war against the New Gods.

But the World belonged to Daltos, and he would not put up with the God Monster Typhon's rebellion for long.  So Daltos launched a mighty Thunderbolt striking the God Monster and sending him into throes of pain and heat and soon an all consuming fire threatened to consume all the world.  What would contain this fire?

Seeing his answer, Daltos picked up an entire, mighty mountain.  He then threw the mountain on the raging Typhon fire, preventing the fire from consuming the world.  Daltos then reigned over all the Earth until the Third Generation.  The Third Generation of Gods went to war with Daltos' Generation.  Using a sickle, Daltos' son -- Leonitidas, beheaded Daltos and threw his dismembered head into the Dalton Sea, making it red with the god's blood.  Desiring worshippers, Leonitidas ordered his brothers and sisters to take wives among the fairie and the nymphs.

The result of the unions were us, the Elves.  We worship Leonitidas because he made us.  And we were meant to rule because we are the Children of the Gods.

[High Elf mystical tradition]

Thus, the three major myths.  The first two are taught in mystery cults.  The third is universal.  However, a fourth is being postulated.   Its unknown which are really the truth among the High Elves.  The Sea that is the Dalton Sea, is really red -- but not red like blood -- the myth only explains in the High Elf consciousness why the Dalton Sea is red.  However, High Elf philosophers have been challenging these Creation Myths as being unreasonable.  That is why a fourth cosmological myth is being postulated by the philosophers. 

The Creation

No, this isn't a depiction of the second chapter in Genesis.  I'm going to work on a Creation Myth for the Elves of Galatea.  Normally, I'd do a man and a woman together, since I'm going to use a sexual myth motif combined with an orphic egg motif in the Creation Myth of the Eladrin and the Elves.  (The Judeo-Christian account is a Deus Faber typological account -- but that isn't what really happened!).

Here is one of the Creator Gods of the Elves, a Goddess.  This picture will appear here on the blog again.  The nudity depicted is non-sexual, but creational.  Here, Earth doubles as Arborea.  The body morph is Aquarius from Heavenly Bodies.

Elves in the Known Lands

Elves in the Known Lands come in five different varieties:

1. First, there are the Fair Elves. Known as the Eladrin in the D&D 4th Edition game, their civilization was conquered by the invading Pelagasiri Elves from the Dragon Mountains. They were enslaved by the Pelagasiri and forced to serve as a servitude race. As a result, many of the Eladrin has fallen from grace. The Pelagasiri have intermingled with the Eladrin, and bred the Eladrin, into the Fair Elves. Or those that are made fair. The Fair Elves have lost most of their Eladric traits, including the glowing eyes. But being bred into a slave race with the idea to serve has made them the most beautiful of all the elves. Fair elves tend to be slaves. They also tend to have blonde, auburne, and black hair with green, blue, violet, or red eyes.



2. The High Elves are the second. Those that are High and noble. They were once the Pelagasiri elves -- elves bred but for one purpose. War and conquest. Wielding the magic of demons, having solved the Riddle of Steel, and developing their own arcane arts from those taught by the Orcs in the Dragon Mountains -- the Pelagasiri invaded the lands of the Eladrin and slaughtered many and brought the Eladrin, once a thriving Early Bronze Age civilization, to a dramatic close.

The Pelagasiri then interbred, intermarried, and enslaved the Eladrin. To show that they are the Highborn, and the Eladrin were humble, the Pelagasiri took the name High Elf. The High Elves named themselves the Highborn, and split the Eladrin into Fair Elves and Low Elves. The High Elves tend to be wizards. They also tend to have black, brown, light brown, auburn, and blonde hair.

3. The Low Elves or Commoner Elves as the High Elves called them, are Eladrin who were forced from their station to do the common work. They are commoners, unlike the High Elf aristocracy. They look like high elves, except they are commoners. Low Elves tend to be sorcerers and warriors. Their hair color is the same as the High Elves.

4. The Drow: certain Eladrin escaped the invasion of the Pelagasiri and moved North into the steppes of the Known Lands. Upon reaching their new home, they made a pact with the dark Spider Goddess. Over the years, their skin darkened and their hair bleached unnaturally and they became a cruel race. Known as the Drow, these evil elves plot to conquer the world themselves for the glory of their dark Spider Goddess. The nation they rule over is known as Lotharis.

5. The Massalian Elves are from the Kingdom of Massalia (Marseilles in French). They are a colony of Eladrin that escaped the depredations of the evil Pelagasiri. Based off of the blood elves of World of Warcraft, the Massalian Elves are driven to rescue their brethren from the High Elves. Their culture is an awful mix of decadence and Spartan tastes. Their government is autocratic, timatic, oligarchic, draconian, and democratic all at the same time.

However, over the millennia, the Massalian Elves were unable to free their brethren. And they saw their Eladrin brethren change and lose the glow in their eyes. The Massalian elves also changed. Their ability to tap demons and devils for a supply of magic power has changed them as well. Their glow in their eyes have changed either to a bright fiery yellow, red, or green. Or, they can suppress their glow to reveal irises that are green, red, blue, violet, gray, or icy. The Massalian Elves' hair tend to be black, but fiery brown, red, golden, or carrot orange. The Massalian Elves tend to be Warlocks.

6. The Eladrin that escaped made some ocean going boats and sailed into the West, looking for lands uncontrolled by the Pelagasiri. These Eladrin were never heard from again.