I woke up with this idea for a cosmology that I might could write about:
God is a plagiarist
A little like the gnostic idea of there being a hidden God and a malevolent God , but it’s the the hidden God that made everything, and the malevolent God is the one that’s been hanging around humanity the last dozen millenia.
Hidden God made the universe, created the stars and the darkness, the land and the sea, the plants, animals, and humans. The celestial spheres where set in motion by them, and then they went away. To create more elsewhere? Maybe, probably. But they’re not around anymore. They left our plant and species to fend for ourselves, knowing we’d manage with the gifts* they gave us.
And then another God showed up to the unsupervised earth and started yelling at prophets, telling them He made the universe and everybody needs to worship him. He’s the one who came up with the garden of eden story, who wrote the 10 commandments, who eventually sent Jesus to bring salvation to humanity.
But he lied. He didn’t make us. He may be a God with all the powers that implies, but he just showed up to a bunch of hairless apes who were wondering where they came from and yelled “oh I did it. I’m your daddy, I made you all!”
I dunno what to do with this story idea. I’m not sure where it could go at the moment. I’ll have to let it stew a while.
* the unique gifts of Homo Sapiens Sapiens are not “intelligence” and “wisdom” as some might assume, but are canonically “cooking”, “baseball”, and “walking for a long time**”
** my phone wanted to say the third one is “butt boy”. No…