Re: Huoshui the sage
oh yes.... this is what miss cat lady shared with huoshui about what she knew.
They call them diffrently though.
Nala, the First Mother. The half-crazy mother of all creation, torn between two lovers who she both adores and despises with all her heart. Nala's mad dance keeps creation in motion and is known by others as they wyld or dynamism.
Rahjah, The Maker. The ambitious brother who drove to impress Nala gave form to the Earth and all things. Unfortunately, Rahjah doesn't know when to stop, and tries to define everything into rigid forms. They don't see the weaver quite as mad as others just obsessive compulsive lol.... He's sometimes called 'The King of Cats'
Cablash, the Unmaker. The dark father, whose influence grants mysteries but also destroys what exists to make way for what is to come. The personification of entropy. Although Cahlash is technically the entity the garou call the wyrm, the bastet consider him the Father of Night, the Author of Mysteries. To them, he's dangerous, seductive and ultimately essential. Interesingly both Cahlash and his brother Rahjah are called collectivly as "The King of Cats"
Kinda overly prideful to see the three forces of the universe as big cats, but that is also how they often show themselves to bastet, or least the forms they take in the amazon.
They also include Ahu, the beginning and end of all things, the univurse it'self... generaly the one true god... or should I say goddess.
So to there story....
Ahu was vast and eternal, nothing but night and silence filled her and she hungered for company but all was void and nothingness. It was a time before life, a longing when the dream of birth was yet to be. She cried out and her cry was answered.
Nala came forth howeling like a grate cat into the void, and Ahu shivered, for Nala was mad as a whirlpool and alive with grief for her loneliness. Her body danced and spun, formless as her mind, a thousand things in an instant of eternity. (the big bang) Ahu spoke again, eger for saner company, and another light shone forth. Like a grand panther came Rhjah, the bright brother, shimmering like a morning lake with eyes like tundral ice. While in his shadow came Cahlash, the shadow brother, with paws like velvet and eyes like flame. They hurd the call of Nala and both went to her and shared Her like mates. The First Mother sceased Her cry and purred into the darkness, and thus Ahu was content.
To light the void, Rahjah spun bits of himself off into the sky. By there glow, Nala appeared as a great leopard, with eyes across her pelt (instead of spots o.O) and claws like starshards. Cahlash grew jealous as His shifting mate settled into form. With a wave of His paww, he sent the winds to caress the mother, ruffling her fur into spikes and scattering her like dust. Free again, the mad mother settled agenst Cahlash's pelt, sparkling like waves on a night sea. Thus began the brothers' battle, the contest that shapes creation, and that someday will end it, and birth another.
To the delight of Ahu, the three became a pride, tumbling together through the endlesss reaches. Nyota Jamma, some call them now: The Star Family, Celestial Cousins. In her maddness, Nala wept tears of joy and rage, and the brothers shaped them into Chaya, the firs and eldest spirits. Some chaya glittered with the light of the maker; others deepened into shadow hues like there dark unmaker; still otheres whirled without form like the madness of she who wept them. Like drops of water, these spirits slpashed and spattered, creating puddles and droplets from wich other spirits sprang. Ahu was overjoyed, and drew many of the chaya to her bosom to tell them secrets from before time. Those secrets passed along the story of the lonely void and the coming of the Jamma. (the celestials)
In time Nala swelled from matting: her kittens glowed like dim stars and whimpered into the darkness. To comfort them, Rahjah wove the sun from the stuff of starts; to help them sleep, Cahlash breathed out the night, the essence of Ahu. The chaya midwifed the kittens, whisked them away and wrapped each one in fine spirit blankets until it could move on its own.
The two brothers however fueded over who fathered the first born, gaia. There fueding shaped the world as we know it now and humans. But when Nala returned she was furious and the other children protected gaia... for turning agenst her Nala cursed them all with bareness, the ones that stood in her way would never bare life as gaia had. She made the brothers promise not to fight, they swore to but such promises are soon broken.
One day, Cahlash walked upon gaia in a foul mood. Nala had left him in favor of his brother, and he boiled with despare and anger. A giant among giants, he stood taller than the highest tree and his skin was the color of poisoned night. For spite, he toppled forests, fouled rivers and smashed hills to rubble. Chalash laied waste to the land for miles around, and the stone itself quailed at his approach. He entered the greatest mountain, and it's sides fled his touch. "Why dose even the skin of my daughter flee from my hands?" He cried in a voice like claciers braking. "Why must I always be Alone.?"
His cry shook the mountainsides. His anger bubbled like venom within him and he loosed it in all deirections. The power of his hate gathered into a cloud of seething darkness and burst from the top of the highest mountain. The winds caught the cloud and scattered it across Gaia's face, changing it to rains of sperpents who spoke with a single voice: "Master, what would you have of us?"
This cloud, wich was one yet many, was the essence of Asura, the many-faced corrupter. Our distant cousins call Cahlash the wyrm, but we know better. Asura is the true destroyer, the shade of a greater entity. Cahlash unmakes, but from his deeds, greater things come. Asura is decay without rebirth, nothing exists from him but annihilation.
Cahlash looked upon his anger incarnate , and he was both truoubled and pleased, "Go across the world," he commanded, "And take root in the cracks between my brother's works. Let that wich is pure stand whole, but erode that which is impure from within." Cahlesh sat in the ruble of his anger and watched the evil spirits depart. He assumed Asura would only destroy the workings of his hated brother, but he was wrong... quite wrong.
The many parts of Asura became a multitude and nestled in the broken places. From the living rock to the beating hearts, Asura darkened the world. Some places he became like gods; in others, like serpents; in still others, he swirled into storms and leeched the life from vital places. His essence became raksasha(bastet abominations), vampires, demons, dakat (fomori). Others would call him Banes or ghosts or chaos spirits, but we know them all for what they are. All are one, and the one is Asura. He tells many tales, but all of them are lies. He is rage made manifest, and he coils within us all.
