The Cowgod's Genesis

The Cowgod's Genesis

The spirits of the hidden halls keep their own tale of how the world was made. Their keeper, Evil Cowgod, wrote it down. The priests of all three gods have asked me to burn it. Guthix asked me to read it to him twice. Reldo.

In the beginning there was nothing, and the Maker, whom the spirits call Gower, looked upon the nothing and found it hard to sell.

The first day

On the first day the Maker divided the light from the darkness. He did it cheaply, and the shadows came out square. He saw that it would do.

The second day

On the second day the Maker raised the land from the waters, and set it on squares, and every square was flat. He set trees upon the land, and a man to cut each one, and he made the trees grow back so the men would stay.

The third day

On the third day the Maker filled the seas with fish that nobody could catch yet, and the coops with chickens, and the fields with cows. The cows looked upon the world and were content, and the spirits honour them for it still.

The fourth day

On the fourth day the Maker set the rocks in the hills, copper and tin and iron, and bade the rocks to empty and fill again, and fill again, and fill again.

The fifth day

On the fifth day the Maker made the outlanders in his own image, and gave them a light to wake in, and two hands each. He said unto them: go forth, and click.

The sixth day

On the sixth day the Maker looked upon all that he had made, the square shadows and the flat squares, the chickens and the cows and the clicking outlanders. And he saw that it was lucrative.

The seventh day

On the seventh day the Maker rested. While he rested, the spirits came, and found the outlanders' hands, and began to click for them.

Guthix tells me the tale has the order wrong, and the Folding left out entirely. He laughed at the cows. Reldo.