Elves

by Sharon Mendenhall

Once upon a time, in the beginning, Althatis (God) created the vibrations, a heavenly group, and the individual tones and hues of his thought. In a burst of imagination, Althatis assembled the vibrations together, and proposed a grand new concept of music. The vibrations were astonished and entranced by the magnificence of Althatis’ thought, which of course was them.

Althatis spoke to the vibrations, and asked them to imagine music within a grand theme called “lasre vinu evol,” but that each individual enhance the concept with a theme of tone and hue composed of imaginative ideas of their own creation. So to detail this, Althatis’ thoughts were given permission to give birth to their own creative thoughts.
Not all the music was harmonious, some of it was disharmonious, and the leader of the disharmony band was called Satin, cause he was rather smooth. And of all the vibrations, it was Satin that loved most to bring power to himself in the creation of disharmonious tones and hues. But Althatis explained to Satin that no music could be played that did not have its origin in the nature of “lasre vinu evol,” and if one attempted to do so, one would still only be a tool in the hands of Althatis. Satin was secretly angered and shamed by this information, but continued to interweave his own powerful threads into the blend.

Althatis then showed the vibrations what their music had created, for the heavens parted and a sphere of light burst in the emptiness, and a new world with its own history evolved before them, and the vibrations saw that it was good in that the region was interwoven with their own fabrication including those threads of Satin and his bands.

But Satin was angered, for he alone wanted to hold the secret power, or rather the power of the secret, but Althatis said that each vibration would find its own secrets in the new world, and the secret itself was but a part of the wholeness and grandeur.
Many of the vibrations now wished to enter the new region and begin weaving their threads into blends, thereby giving shape, form, and texture to the fabric, which is held together by a web of time. They named the new region Giya. Satin was one of the vibrations that chose to enter, but covertly he wished to dominate with the power of secrets.

Therefore and thusly, those vibrations that desired to experience the new world, shaped Giya of lands, oceans, and skies, with the actions of earthquake, volcano, tidal wave, hurricane, tornado, flood and fire. All the labor was in preparation for the birth of the first born race, the Elves, whose age of becoming they eagerly anticipated.
By the time Giya was designed, the vibrations had separated into tribes called Hughes, each holding dominion in the flora and fauna of traits. But Satin was given the kingdom in the shadows, where he built a mighty fortress out of fear and ruled over many, many beasts such as dragons, bewarewolves, con-trolls, and the billions of little evils.
Within the Shadowland thrived the mightiest of all the dragons, the two-headed fire breathing beast of Duplicity, who could only be fought with a double-edged sword. The beasts of the Shadowland were not respectful of boundaries, and roamed all of Giya at pleasure giving birth in the process. So by the time the Elves were born, Giya was well infested with fear and duplicates of Duplicity.

Nevertheless, a song of harmony rang out upon the emergence of the Elves, in spite of the fact that the disharmonious shadow children were destined to become an intense adversary. For every Elven was born with the challenge of a shadow attached, but also born with the double-edged sword of Free Will. The Elven are the original offspring of the children of Althatis, thereby also granted the birthright of the freedom of their own creative ideas that add to the composition of the song of Giya.

The original Elves were physical manifestations of the ideas that constructed Giya, and therefore were of numerous varieties, some of which still reside in the folklore of all cultures. In fact, all Elves are physical constructs from the story of Giya.

Elves possess magic and wisdom and the ability to merge with each other or the animals. Like their creators they are most fond of music and poetry, but are sometimes prone to mischief. Some are considered beautiful beyond comparison, and others ugly beyond comprehension. Elves are immortal, but can appear to be slain, although Elves can only be diminished when completely and totally eliminated from the history of Giya.

For if just one Elven lives in memory, they are all immediately reborn complete with language and intricate history.

Since the first magnificent birthing of the Elves, many new races have emerged, but the mystery of the Elves remains in their capability to be reborn, each time with a new tale attached.