Question: how would you go about creation allegories? I mean, the whole point of an allegory is to make it similar but not quite, as to leave the reader searching for the Divine Truth, so to speak. So having the Creator speak it into existence, as it is in reality, wouldn't work. C.S. Lewis has an excellent allegory with Aslan singing the world into existence. So, that has been taken. What else could you do for it? It would have to be something vocal, or at least something having to do with words, would think. I was thinking the Creator could whisper the world into existence. Or could he think it into existence? What are your ideas on this?

I wrote my creation (found in the sub forum Lor-Amar) as more of a parallel than an allegory but here are my thoughts. I would definitely say the words are what matter in the creation so, with the risk of looking a bit like Myst, you could have the world written. You don't have to use paper it could be like the hand on the wall in Daniel. God could just write "light" on the darkness and it could be there. This makes it a little different with the creation of man but he could still go and form man with his hands rather than write words to make him appear. Just a thought.

I just finished writing my basic idea for the creation of my world. I started by having the world revealed. Where the Lord is in the darkness, there is light, and a barren rock comes into view. Then the Lord shapes it with his hands, filling valleys with water, raising the mountains, etc. He forms the peoples with his hands. I like the whispering idea; it's very dramatic.

Tolkien also made his world from song.

Tolkien's creation story is simply awesome. It's in the first few chapters of the Silmarillion.

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