The story this album embarks on is the greatest story ever told, and it was told for millennia, more times than the number of cultures and religions, but always in parables.

Some examples of such storytelling are given below:

“At the beginning, there was a huge drop of milk. Then Dundari came, and he created the stone.” (Fulani, Mali)

“At the beginning, there was nothing. In the darkness of the world lived Sa, Death, with his wife and only daughter.” (Kono, Guinea)

“At the beginning, everything was water. Then Olodumare, the supreme god, sent Obatala down from heaven, to create the dry land.” (Yoruba, Nigeria)

“Now the spirits of heaven all commanded the mighty one He who beckoned, and the mighty one She who beckoned with mighty words, proclaiming: ‘Make firm this drifting land and fashion it in its final form!’” (Kojiki, Japan)

“In the beginning Eurynome, the goddess of all things, rose naked from chaos, but found nothing substantial for her feet to rest upon, and therefore divided the sea from the sky, dancing lonely upon its waves.” (Pelasgian creation myth)

“At the beginning of all things, Mother Earth emerged from chaos and bore her son Uranus as she slept. Gazing down fondly at her from the mountains, he showered fertile rain upon her secret clefts, and she bore grass, flowers, and trees, with the beasts and birds proper to each. This same rain made the rivers flow and filled the hollow places with water so that lakes and seas came into being” (Olympian creation myth)

“When skies above were not yet named, nor earth below pronounced by name, Apsu, the first one, their begetter, and maker Tiamat, who bore them all, had mixed their waters together, but had not formed pastures, nor discovered reed-beds, when yet no gods were manifest, nor names pronounced, nor destinies decreed, then gods were born within them.” (Mesopotamian creation myth)

Such stories are many, they are beautiful and poetic. Yet they hardly relate to the precise circumstances and history of the world. These myths are far more revealing about the people who wrote them down; the details found relevant to mention, the things not spoken of. Even in our more enlightened times, the number of people still sticking to these old stories is overwhelming. Such is the power of poetry. But there is new poetry being written on this topic during our lifetime, are we even aware of its details? The new poetic story is told by extremely precise science: by biology, chemistry, geology, astronomy and meteorology. All the sciences are working together now to create a coherent and above all, a verifiable story of what actually happened long ago, at the beginning of things, before the beginning of things, was there even a beginning to it all? The story of this album starts before it.

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