Birth of the Gate Keepers
She was alone in the bottomless Pit, this black snake. She had willed her way down from heaven, a way from all the noise. Her absence had not gone unnoticed.
Her brother, primordial Eros formed remained ever shining, ever lovely. Hers had turned dark, slick with scales and when he ripped her reality opened, the returning Light left her blind.
“Leave this place, it is mine alone to have, to dwell!”
He only laughed. “Fairest sister, the most bright one, you are a coward. Fear has over taken your heart, and in this place I shall make you mine.”
Eros felt the snake wrap around him, trying in vain to squeeze him. He gently grabbed its neck and kissed it. He realized she was full of eggs. He pushed himself inside of her.
Pain was born from her tears. She cried when the pleasure was too much. She discovered in that perfect moment mixture of pleasure/pain, light/darkness and fear/reality she was with child.
Eros seed would grow strong. His returned to heaven was over. His contentment laid within the black snake, that would bare his 12 children.
Her Light had made the angels of heaven weep of joy, now she would birth utter darkness from her womb.
Her first born was a golden snake, with her form and his father’s color (light). He roamed freely for his parents were busy with each other.
This boy found the hidden, the lost art of creating reality. He wished to know what it meant to be a thing, to be a verb, and a noun. Thus, when his sister came upon him one day, they copied their parents and they too had children.
On and on it went, until Eros pushed his ever growing family out of the Pit. They were forced to create their own realms to dwell in.
*Eros and the black snake are in a fully consented relationship, and no wrong doing happened. Just in case anyone was curious. She could uncoiled herself from him at any moment.