In those first years, creation was not a story but a sensation. Light and Magic moved like twin currents through the nothing, and from their mingling arose the first Great Ones—Justice, Nature, Fertility, Seas, Strength, Trickery, Knowledge, Secrets, Forge, and Death—names we now speak with reverence because they were once descriptions before they were persons. The oldest songs insist that the air itself “learned to breathe” in this era; modern scholars interpret this as the first settling of law, the moment the universe decided it would be consistent.