Only in the darkness can you see the stars

Prologue

On the first day, God created light in the darkness.

On the second, He created the sky. Dry land and plants were created on the third day. On the fourth day, God created the sun, the moon and the stars. Water and sky animals were made on the fifth day, and on the sixth day, land animals and people were created.

That's what genesis 1:1 says.

My question is who created me?

Did I have a mother ? A father ? Was I birthed? Hatched ? The questions are never ending.

Three thousand years I've lived and I haven't found the answer yet.

All I remember was opening my eyes,lying beneath the harsh sun in the some desert. Which I now know was called the Sahara desert but that's not the point.

I woke as a humanoid bipedal creature, I hesitate to call myself human because humans age, they get older with time , time moves and they eventually wither and die returning to whichever god they believed in.

Heaven or hell like the Christians say.

The newer religion known as Islam call it Janna, the Arabic word for it, in English it boils down to paradise or if you've lived a life filled with sin your one way stop would be Jahannam.

'flames that crackle and roar; fierce, boiling waters, scorching wind, and black smoke, roaring and boiling as if it would burst with rage.'

Doesn't sound pleasant in any stretch of the word. I however, enjoy the Ancient Greeks beliefs.
They had no concept of heaven or hell. They believed the afterlife was a cheerless existence.
There was no place for postmortem judgement but like all good things it must come to an end.

Some people believed this to be unfair and became dissatisfied with the concept of equal misery for all.

After all humans are fickle creatures.

Good deeds should be rewarded and bad deeds should be punished.

That's their belief and so over time the cheerless existence evolved to a more acceptable version. Elysium otherwise known as Elysian Fields became more common and accepted by the people.

Hell doesn't appear in the Greek New Testament but several references made to Tarturus or Hades. Poor guy got the short of the stick.

But back to where I was yes see humans age and they die.

They either go to heaven or hell if you're religious , if you're not well then you die and that's it. Party's over , you're six feet underground , decomposing giving the maggots something to do.

Rather bleak if you ask me.

But people want something to believe in, want to know that their choices in life would be rewarded in the next life or their after life, not a bad thing. It keeps people going and who am I to question their beliefs?

I don't. I may not agree with it but I don't question it. I've learned not to do so after passing my first millennium. I tried, I did but there was too much chaos , death , sickness so much wrong with this world and I no longer found any interest in it.

So now I just move through time and space without any real purpose. I watch empires rise and fall. I watched Kings and Queens reign before succumbing to treachery or shooting themselves in the foot.

Time moved past the time of monarchs and into a more democratic world.

Though that wasn't without trouble.

Many men and women stood out to me. People that actively tried making a difference, using their measly human lifespan to right the wrongs of the past and better the future. My favorites included: