When her father, the darkness, discovered this, he was furious for he was very protective of his one and only creation and he thought that his daughter and he alone had a reputation while he thought Unalooloo was a brat and a disgrace. They decided to create a world together when they saw a light and a yellow fruit in the darkness with a low voice saying, “Keep this fruit. It’ll help you do great wonders. But keep in mind that it’ll work only with great support and cooperation from your partner.” So they started creating great beautiful creations without her father knowing. If there were creations then there would be no darkness, meaning no father, so Anaman and Unalooloo could live in peace.
Since Anaman’s father was dark in the heart, she had a little bit of that as well. So she went down to become the earth. Unalooloo was pure, so he went up to be the sky. So together they created water, fire, plants, air, sun and moon from the fruit the voice had given them by eating it and thinking of what they wanted to create. When they thought they had created everything they needed to be happy, a light came out of them and went together to create a heart in the sky. They created the greatest and the most powerful force in the world; they created love.
After a few months in the middle of the day, gray ash, now known as clouds, filled the sky. It became so familiar to Anaman, it like a part of her was in the gray ash. It soon made the sky dark, and then her father appeared, because he was the darkness. He was furious. He made a dark hole in the sky and it sucked Unalooloo in. When he was being sucked in, he dropped a ring he had on his finger. Then there was no sky and and nothing but the ring, and Anaman was destroyed.
Her father tried to suck her in too, for he was disappointed with what he had created. She screamed and created tornado, earthquake, whirlpool, hurricane, and thunder. It took over the darkness by sucking it all in.
She was then alone in the universe. It was not dark because the darkness was sucked in. It was just blank. She was so sad that she started crying. Then suddenly water and soil were created. The water and the soil came out of the earth and plants started to grow, then a river was formed, animals and all the elements of nature were created. Her hair fell and the strands became people.
But Anman was still sad because Unalooloo, her true and only love, was gone forever. She was so angry that she created a very dangerous force – hatred. She could not live with the pain, so she killed herself and her pure half went to the top to become the sky and her dark side stayed at the bottom to become the ground. She died. The only thing that was left of her was her body and a red anklet on her foot. After a few seconds, the anklet and the ring united to make two circles. Then a big hole of light came out of the circles and Unalooloo and Anaman’s spirits flew out together hand in hand and went up to the sky. Soon there were white bright dots called stars in the sky with the moon they had created. So even at night, the stars gave light, so it was not completely dark. They were still a part of their creations and had eternal love and were together forever.
Anaman’s most powerful creations – love and hatred – still exist. They now live in Deprelean, and can never die.
The writer is a Class VII student at Lincoln School, Rabi Bhawan, Kathmandu.
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