He looked lovingly at
his creation. A pair of eyes and ears, nose, lips, mouth, cheeks, forehead and
chin on the face, neck, torso, a pair of hands and legs, hair ... He had paid
attention to every minute detail. Prior to this, all His creations were His
experiments. And he had made many. Some lived on land, some in the oceans and a
chosen few on both. He had made the finishing touches to his latest creation
when He remembered His own rule – “Every species shall mate with its own and
never with another species”. So He made another version of his creation and now
He had both – a male and a female of His latest creation. The human species.
The archangels all
looked at the creation in awe and chorused, “Awesome!”
One of them gleefully
said, “Just imagine, once this species starts breeding there will be so many of
these awesome creatures everywhere on earth!”
God sighed. He shook
his head and said “Perfection is boring. And if the offspring bears resemblance
to its parents there shall be much unwanted confusion and chaos. Why, the
species might even lose interest in breeding if it sees the same of the
opposite kind everywhere, eventually leading to its extinction.”
The archangels chorused
“How true!”
God sighed. He then
started tweaking the template and though the base format remained the same, He
started making alterations as to the colour of the skin, hair and eyes, the
height. It took Him quite a few days but He eventually came up with varied
editions of His latest creation. He lined them up proudly for the archangels to
marvel.
The archangels chorused
“Marvellous!”
God sighed. The
physical attributes were all multifarious but what of the behavioural
attributes? With His divine powers He instilled varying degrees of the seven
virtues and vices in the various editions of his creation. So now, not only did
they differ according to colour, height and physicality but also in kindness,
cruelty, brevity, cowardice, prudence, greed, intelligence, foolishness,
magnanimity, miserliness, honesty, deceitfulness, etc. He lined them up proudly.
The archangels
chorused, “Magnificent!”
God finally heaved a sigh
of relief. He instructed his archangels to descend on earth and position the
different editions of his creations in different parts of the world. He would
then induce life in them and they will then sustain and reproduce their own
kind. Soon the earth will have a variety of his most proud creation – the human.
Many centuries later
the humans formed a variety of Gods. Touché!
