2:3
“Upon the waters rested the earth, level and unbroken. She received no crown. Her greatness was that every future foot would be permitted to stand upon her.”
The Book of Diesel · Gospel Threshold Edition v4.5
What is history and what is fiction?
Sacred traditionTraditional religious material; historical dating and narrative form remain distinct.
Historical anchor
The Bundahišn gives a sequence of sky, water, earth, plant, the uniquely created bull, Gayōmard, and fire, with fire understood as permeating the other creations. Comparable creation lists have older Avestan parallels.
Fiction boundary
The voices attributed to the creations are literary personification. The sequence and major images are adapted from Zoroastrian cosmogonic tradition.