Andrew Eubanks — The Lost Historian

  Original art by Teruya Yamamoto Part One: The Age of the Gods There are many retellings of the beginning of the Age of the Gods. This is one such retelling. There was a time when the Heaven and the Earth were not yet separated. Yin and Yang had not been divided. Everything existed as one in a chaotic, egg-like mass. And so, this mass chaotically yet naturally divided into two. One side contained everything pure and clear within the mass and ascended to become Heaven, forming relatively quickly. The other side contained everything heavy and impure, settling down to slowly form the Earth with some difficulty, going through a phase where the lands floated upon the Earth as if the Earth were water.  During this primordial time, a cloud-like mist existed in the Void between Heaven and Earth. Inside this mist was an abstract shape sometimes described as a reed-shoot before immediately transforming into a human shape. This was the first god, divine being or kami. While it became as one, it