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Essay: Addewid Resurrection
Fractured Paradise A Novel In Progress by Oliver Smith OliverSmith@CyberPoet.com < Addewid Index Page < Essay Index Essay Start
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Addewid Resurrection
Top of Page In Fractured Paradise Volume I, the story is told of the differentiation of the Henin from the Silence, the rise of the creative force of the Intredu, the creation of the Cavnod and the Earth within the Cavnod. Not long after the creation of the Cavnod, disagreements began to emerge between the three aspects of the Intredu ( Cren, Hesbrid and Treven). The magnitude of the Cavnod was exhilirating to the Intredu, inspiring them place life within it, just as they had done to Addewid, especially on Inniscren, where the Intredu lived together at the time. Over the course of many Henin Breaths, the Intredu had created innumerable life forms on Inniscren, and they generally were in agreement, with respect to what was going to be created, what form these spirit-lives would take, where they would be located and what role they would play in the life systems being established on Inniscren. But the creation of the Cavnod was different. Up to that point, everything created was intended to be directly under the control of the Intredu, but there were things happening on Inniscren that even the Intredu were unable to understand. The creatures living on Inniscren were starting to act in ways that the Intedu neither expected, nor desired. These creatures seemed to be acting on their own, outside of the direct will of the Intredu. The Cavnod, on the other hand, was intended to function entirely independently of the direct will of the Intredu, and that was a step that not only was the Intredu uncomfortable with, the rest of the Henin were simply incensed that the Intredu would consider such a creation. If the Intredu couldn't control the creatures on Inniscren, what would happen with this new creation, which was intended to function independently of the Intredu? There were numerous efforts to create ideal life forms for the Cavnod, many of them focusing specifically on a single planet, called earth. One of the first things that the Intredu had to decide was where and how the individual spirits for the live forms on Earth were to be created and how those life forms were to be reproduced. In Addewid, Cren would create a body, Hesbrid would give that body a spirit and Treven would instill instinctive and cognitive patterns of behavior into that body in order to allow a personality to evolve. The result was a complex, complete life form. But the Intredu wanted the Cavnod and all life forms within the Cavnod to not only be self sustaining, but also self creating. Before the completion of the Cavnod, the Intredu created two bipedal creatures that they felt would be ideal for the Cavnod in general, and for the Earth specifically. They called these two creatures Merca and Gure. Once Cren had created the their bodies, and Hesbrid had given them spirits and Treven had given them the basic elements of their personalities, the other nine Henin provide their own contributions as dictated by Addewid Law. Ultimately, Merca and Gure were given knowledge (from Gebod), logic (from Resam), emotions (from Temlad), aggression (from Ruvel), strength (from Nerth), laws (from Deveg), wisdom (from Dothen), and change (from Newid). They were also given genitals with which to pleasure each other, Merca being the female and Gure being the male. They were exceedingly happy and lived with the Intredu in the Gortha Valley on Inniscren. The Intredu was very pleased with both Merca and Gure, but they were not quite ready to place them on Earth. The Cavnod wasn't quite ready for them to be placed there yet. Meanwhile, the Intredu worked diligently on other life forms (species) that Merca and Gure would eventually share the Earth with. First they created simple live forms and graduated to more complex ones, allowing many Breaths to pass before introducing new species. Occasionally, they would start over, destroying many of the species that were roaming the earth, introducing new species. It was during this period that the Intredu started to split up, with each of the three going their separate ways, even though they continued to work together on the Cavnod. The disagreements revolved around what to do with the spirits Hesbrid was placing for the bodies Cren was creating and how the spirits and bodies should related to each other, and how Death within the species should affect the body, the spirit and the instinctive and accumulated knowledge of each life. Death was an experience that each of the Intredu felt was an important facet of the Cavnod. Since there was no true beginning or ending to life as it is known in Addewid, the Intredu wanted existence within the Cavnod to have a definitive beginning and ending. Creating a beginning was somewhat straightforward and less problematic for the Intredu. They would simply create an extension to the pleasurable experience of sex, as provided by the introduction of genitals, or other sensing artifacts of a life form's existance and combine the genetic material that would be mixed from the individuals participating in the sexual act to create a new, physical life. The spirits destined for these new lives would be created by Gee Gee Worms, which live in the Colledig Marsh on Inniscren. Death, on the other hand, was not so simple. Cren, from the beginning of their efforts to construct the Cavnod, was only interested keeping the spirits of the descendents of Merca and Gure (Humans alive after death. For them, she would resurrect exact replicas of the physical bodies that the spirits occupied on Earth, but without the flaws instroduced from faulty genetics, the environment, accidents or old age. The spirits of all other Earth Side species would simply be destroyed. Hesbrid refused to accept this strategy. She felt that all spirits generated from the Gee Gee Worms, regardless of whether they were descendents of Merca and Gure, should be kept alive after death. She had no problem with new bodies being constructed for these spirits, even if the bodies were different, but she did not want the spirits, themselves, to be destroyed. Treven agreed with Hesbrid that all spirits should be kept alive after death, but she liked the idea that all spirits should be reincarnated into new, different bodies, extending the life-spirit experience into new physical forms after death, and that death should occur to any and all live-spirit-bodies. This disagreement was never fully resolved within the intact Intredu, so Treven and Hesbrid moved off of Inniscren. Treven took over the waters of the Biola Sea that surrounded Inniscren (referred to as Treven's Bay, out to a ring of islands established by Hesbrid (known as Hesbrid's Ring). At four cardinal points on Hesbrid's Ring, Treven commanded the Morhu to spin the waters into two whirlpools (Munevai), rotating in opposite directions, one spinning the waters down, the other spinning the waters up. These two whirlpools connect with the underside of Addewid on the Eternal Plane, called Annwn. These twin whirlpools (Munevai) serve as the gateway between Addewid and Annwn. Within Annwn, Treven creates a home for all of the spirits dying on Earth that are denied an existence within Addewid. Within Annwn, the bodies of all spirits die, but with death, they are reborn into new bodies and bodies from all of the life forms give birth. This means that spirits are not created anew within Annwn when a birth occurs, but rather a dying spirit returns in the context of a new body, with a new form, but with all of the accumulated memories of all previous lives, a fully conscious and aware reincarnation process. Within Addewid, the spirits of all life forms that die on Earth are swept up by the long pendulous limbs of the Yew trees surrounding the Cavnod. The human spirits (i.e. the descendents of Merca and Gure) are placed into the Tavod River, where the Cervin construct new bodies for these spirits. After the body has been created, the Lavronai take the bodies from the waters of the Tavod River and place them on barges that will take them to their assigned, personal island. It was Cren's idea that Humans only needed a simple island with comfortable grass to sleep on and food (from the Meithrin Tree) for spiritual sustenance to keep them happy, but that was a bit optimistic... Praise be, The Blessed Three David Maple-Green |
