The world began in darkness. The stars were the first children of the darkness and they woke up slowly. Some still sleep and some will sleep for all of our time. The moon was the next child of darkness and it woke slowly too. It took a long time. A month.
Then the daylight awoke. The daylight had many children. The ocean was daylight's first child. The land, its second. The ocean had children. Plants and fish. But the land had children too. The people were its children- descendants of darkness