A long time ago, approximately 10000 to 20000 years ago the world was still ruled by mighty beasts, even though the humans inhabited almost all parts of the world at that time, their numbers were still very low somewhere around 5 million and their technology was also extremely primitive, having only access towards copper which they weren’t even able to melt and instead hammered into shape making spear tips and knives.
Humans at that time were nothing more then slightly bigger ants in the eyes of those mighty beasts, they were weak, small and slower then most creatures.
The only thing they had going for them was their slightly higher intellect compared to most animals and even then their ability to make tools wasn’t much help when compared to the hide of a prehistoric beast which was comparable to a steel plate.
Humans had a miserable life and were always in the bottom of the food chain, only a small minority of humans knew how to farm and rear livestock, everyone else still continued to hunt for food which imposed high amounts of risks that would almost always end in death, as people still didn’t know how to deal with those risks and since everyone needed food to survive, hunting was the only way anyone could hope to have chance of living.
This is where the origin of the earth mother came to be.
Technically the earth mother already existed since the beginning of the establishment of the earth itself, but it was only 20000 thousand years ago when the earth mother made the very first contact with the humans or human in this case.
Who this “human” was is unknown, how old he or she was, what gender they were or what their name was, none of this had ever been recorded for some reason, because of this lack of information the records named this human who gained the favor of the earth mother as the “Originator”.
The Originator was the first and last human to be recorded of ever personally interacting with the earth mother and gaining her favor, it is written that the way the Originator gained the favor of the earth mother was through planting 100 trees everyday by hand through his entire life for 134 years until he was on the verge of death by old age which was quite the luxury death since rarely ever did anyone die from old age in that period of time.
It is unknown why the Originator planted so many trees and why he kept doing it until he was about to die, it is often times theorized within the scriptures that the Originator must have been a nature fanatic or extremely attune to the plants around him which forced him to plant those trees, in other books the Originator is also referred to as the child of the forest and even assumed to have been the direct descended of the earth mother herself, but truthfully those claims don’t possess any substantial evidence as it all just mere conjecture on the parts of the previous head priests.
Going back to the story of the Originator.
Having lived for 134 years and planted over 40 billion trees, it is written that the Originator felt the coming of his last days on earth, but feeling the premonition of death still didn’t stop the Originator from his daily routine of planting trees and even on his last day on earth he somehow managed to barely plant the last tree with his rickety body before finally slumping down on his makeshift bed about to go to sleep knowing that he would never wake up again.
Miraculously though this did not happen.
While he was sleeping the Originator dreamed for the very first time of his life, the dream involved a almost ethereal figure approaching him with divine light before whispering words towards him telling him.
-Oh child, for all your service and devotion, I the earth mother feel gratitude as I thank you for the children that you have given me, but gratitude alone will not be enough I feel which is why I will from now on appoint you as my personal guardian of the earth, may you forever protect all life and shelter all of my children, and when your time will come and you feel tired from all earthly shackles you may be freed and pass your duties to the next my guardian.
The next day, the Originator woke up, remembering the entire dream with crystal clear clarity, the Originator had come to realize that he was no longer as old as he was before, his previous decrepit and old body had turned fit and young just like how he used to be in his youth, his slow and declining mind was quick and improving, every breath he took was like a breath of nature sweeping through his lungs, he could feel the presence of the earth beneath him and most importantly the presence of the earth mother watching over him blessing him.
With his life completely changed and his mortal shell shed to the ground the Originator had become the first ever guardian of the earth, using his newly gained powers he fulfilled his tasks dutifully and did everything the will of the earth mother wanted him to do, but over all there wasn’t really much the earth mother desired him to do on her land as nature would do most of the work for him, protecting life was important but nature should not be interfered with, as all things will die eventually and decompose into the earth getting back into the embrace of the earth mother who would give them new life once again continuing the cycle of life and death.
But if so what would be the point of the Originator if nature and the earth mother already took care of most of the work ? Obviously the Originator had more pressing and important duties then nature or even the earth mother in some aspect, being a literal “Guardian” of the earth, the real duties of the Originator was actually to stop the invasion of foreign beings into the earth.
In the big wide universe the earth was simply another realm to be explored, other then humans there existed hundreds and thousands of other realms and species with the same or greater capabilities then humans, these species would periodically attack other lesser realms to enslave and harvest resources from to strengthen themselves.
Those hostile species belonged to Devouring Realms that sought power through eating lesser realms.
Of course not all realms devour each other to gain power, earth is a good example of that, as for the last 20000 years even while suffering through countless invasions of foreign species trying to enslave the realm, it still stood tall without ever retaliating or devouring other lesser realms for power.
Earth was a Cultivating Realm standing opposite to the Devouring realms it used its own strength to cultivate itself and become more powerful, such strength takes a lot of time to accumulate but it is far more powerful and potent compared to the strength of the Devouring Realms that is stolen from others.
Unfortunately this accumulation of strength that takes a lot of time gives the other realms a opportunity to strike while the realm is cultivating, the way the hostile species enter any realm for invasion is mostly always depended on knowledge and present resources they have.
Some species use advanced technology to fly in the vast array of space from star to star traveling at light speed, while others use the mystic power of their own soul to open dimensional gates and hop into new realms to explore.
There exist a whole pot of ways for any species to accomplish their goals, the embodiment of those realms like the earth mother cannot help their species other then make the right environment and or oppress the power of the invaders upon arrival.
Once again going back to the Originator’s story.
It is written that the Originator back in the day fought against countless unimaginable beings and defended against all kinds of schemes and plots to protect the earth, the Originator was a unyielding, indomitable warrior who slew enemies with brute force alone and matched armies of thousands and millions just by himself.
It is unknown whether these acts or accomplishments are real since they never go into too much detail, but it is known that urban legends such as the vampire, dragons and other mythical creatures were a species of other realms that once came to invade the earth which the Originator and the previous head priests promptly fought against but couldn’t completely erase which caused their existence to be cemented in popular pop culture to this day never knowing that those creatures were actually real and may even still be around somewhere.
Now alas a story has to end someday.
The same goes to the Originator, having fought for so long for over 1000 to the protect the earth the Originator finally became tired of life and the endless fighting and finally decided to pass his mantle down to the next generation.
Opening a church dedicated to the earth mother with himself as the only follower, the Originator decided that he wouldn’t make a organization and instead passed the duties of the guardian only to one person who would later also do the same, as this allowed the risk of power misuse to lessen to a strong degree as a organization can easily be swayed by benefits then a single devote individual who can stay true to themselves.
Of course being absolutely devote was not necessary, as long as one did their duties and protected the earth from the invaders, the guardian could do whatever he or she desired be it claiming innocent people or accumulate wealth with their strength, as this was also part of nature where strength ruled and the weak obeyed.
Fortunately over the course of history never has there been a absolutely corrupt individual who turned to such deprived actions in the church, of course there existed guardians who did as they pleased but they never truly caused any major harm to society or did anything evil or heinous that deserved death, all guardians or what they are called in the modern day “Head Priests” strictly followed the rules and respected the earth mother from the bottom of their hearts.
History is a strange thing.
You can never be absolutely sure that a certain event or person actually existed just through reading a book, anything that was written could always be fabricated and you would never know if its true or not without proof, but of course it isn’t good to be always doubtful about what a book tries to convey, but then again, there exists a limit as to how much you can believe in without it shattering the reality you thought was real.
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