Mother Earth...

A long, long time ago the great Mother Earth was but a great and vast ball of water. It was but ocean and there was no land. It had been this way for many, many years but one day the great spirits of Water, Land, Fire, and Air decided that the great Mother Earth should be more than just the vastness of water as Land argued that he had so much land stored up in the depths of the seas all he needed was to bring it forth. And Fire raged that his anger had been held back too long. Soon Air chimed in and stated that she needed land to breath. Before long, the heavens rumbled with the great Spirits arguing and the skies and the waters began to shake violently. After a short time of this out of the depths of the water came land mases and soon great mountains rose to the heavens. Some of which in certain areas erupted from beneath the depths below rolling billows of fire which the great spirits called lava. It billowed upon itself so it was as if it would never end. T'was like a cloud as it rolled on and on seeming to never end. It was beautiful, the lava and the mountains from which it erupted would later come to be called volcanos. The destruction it caused was truly glorious as it ate everything in its path leaving nothing but gray and black ash and soot in its wake but also a chance for new life and new life did happen. Shortly after the mountains, volcanos and land rose to the surface animals appeared on Mother Earth. No one knows which of the great spirits created the animals but it is suspected they all four shared a part. It was discovered that during the bringing up of the land mases and the making of the mountains and volcanos that a great unknown was created in the Underground for deep caverns had been made in different parts of the world during the battle of the great spirits and some of the animals tended to migrate there for the comfort of the solitude it offered. This underground world also offered darkness from the bright sun that Fire had decided should shine as a bright ball of gases and heat for light on Mother Earth. The Creation was as it should be and everything was beautiful. Land and Air were working together perfectly and had created these wonderful things called trees and flowers and plants which helped all life grow and flourish. Water and Fire could be at odds but they were learning how to work together. For that matter, all the spirits were learning how to work together and utilize what each other could provide to make Mother Earth better. Some time later, though no one really knows how long, mankind showed up. The great spirits gathered together and discussed who might have made this beast but no one took claim to this. It remained a mystery. And the Earth flourished and floundered, flourished and floundered and what had been done was good. The great oceans, the many great mountains, the waterfalls, the seas, rivers, the creatures which roamed Mother Earth. The Great Spirit looked down and saw that it was all good.