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In the Hour of First Dawning, before God made the four-legs called equus and the two-legs called humans, he paused to take his rest, and sought for a place to stay. Finding nothing but hard earth, he fashioned himself a mountain, and in this mountain there was a cave where he laid himself and cocooned himself with sleep.

But whilst he slept, Mother Earth awoke and looked with anger upon this mountain that had been fashioned from her flesh. Throwing her shoulders back in fury, she caused the first earthquake that sent the mountain tumbling down.

When God saw what had happened, he held back his wrath and built the mountain again. But when Mother Earth saw what he had done, she released a second earthquake, this one greater than the first. The mountain crashed down a second time, and the boulders left deep gouges in the land. This created the lesser hills and valleys, and the shards of the great mountain became the Mountains of Harms Ridges.

But God was still weary and he desired to sleep in peace. So a third time, he fashioned a mountain, only instead of stone, he fashioned it out of the rock-that-is-thunder.

When Mother Earth saw this, she lifted her shoulders to release the greatest earthquake of them all. For days and nights she strained, in her struggle to throw this mountain from her back. So great was her exertion that she sweated tears, that became the oceans, and the blood that is roaring-mountain-fire. But she could not dislodge the God’s sleeping place, and at last she lowered her head in defeat.

When God awoke at last, refreshed, he saw that the land had changed. No more was there hard earth and stone, but a land that was full of oceans and seas and rivers. He saw the mountains and the fields and the valleys, and though he was amazed, he was also pleased. Never had he dreamed such a thing could be, and he wove this new world into his plans of creation. So it was that he came to create equus, and the ones who call themselves the neko, and the canis and the aikenka. These creatures he made for the warm sunny slopes and the grassy plains of fertile lands.

But there was one thing more that he did not create, and which nevertheless came to be.

In the desperate struggles of Mother Earth, her furious attempts to throw the mountain from her back, she had sweated water and fire, and in some places, these two things came to join. Water merged into fire and fire turned into icy water. The product was a water-pearl, that which is now known to be the egg of a dragon. From this egg hatched the First Dragon, Yu Huang, he from whom all the dragon races of the world are descended.

Yu Huang Finds a Companion:

Yu Huang was lonely, and was desirous of a companion. First he went to God, but God would have nothing to do with him, for Yu Huang was not of his creation. So it was that Yu Huang lifted his voice to Mother Earth and asked her to provide him a companion. Mother Earth consented to this request, but the next dragon she hatched was malformed.

“This creature is malformed. It has no wings, and it has no scales.”

So the creature was turned away and it became merah, the lesser cousins of the warm-bloods that is known as food.

Mother Earth tried again to satisfy the desires of her firstborn. She birthed a second creature, but once again it was imperfect.

“This creature has no wings, and it has no legs. It has an imbalance in the soul. It is only a creature of water, not of water and fire.”

So this creature was also turned away, and it went into the seas to become the scaled carp that is known as yii.

Now Mother grew incensed. To her Firstborn, she demanded to know what would make him happy.

“Make me a companion such as myself, who mirrors my looks and mirrors my ways.”

So Mother Earth birthed another dragon-egg, and from this came San Xing, the Second Dragon. But still, Yu Huang was not happy, for San Xing mirrored him exactly.

Yu Huang Finds a Mate:

Yu Huang approached Mother Earth again.

“Give me a companion, one who mirrors me in all ways bar one. I would have this companion be like and not-like, one who is a dragon but can bear others of our kind.”

So Mother Earth birthed a Third Dragon, the First Female, whose name we do not know. Third Dragon mated with Yu Huang, and they had many children.

The Doragon and the Mauten:

Now it came to pass that the children of Yu Huang were not alike. They were many and varied in their talents, and chief amongst them was the firstborn, Doragon, and his younger sister, Mauten. Mauten was hot-tempered and impetuous, and it was said of her that she had more fire than water. Doragon, the eldest, was the opposite. It was said he had too much of water, and not enough of fire. This led the two into constant conflict, and at last it was deemed that they should live apart. So Doragon betook himself to the high mountains, where he could think and contemplate. Mauten took herself into the hidden tunnels in Mother Earth, where the fire ran hot in Mother Earth’s veins. From these two are descended the races of the Doragon and the Mauten: two different dragons, of different temperament and personality.

~More Dragon myths coming soon~