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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Hound" data-source="post: 3166460" data-attributes="member: 30195">For what it's worth, in our world, the big monotheistic religions believe that in the beginning there was an eternal god (always existed, or outside of time as we know it) and the physical world (such as it was) consisted of nothing but formless chaos (referred to by terms like "the waters").  Then the god took this chaos and gave order to it, separating the land from the water from the vault of the heavens, saying let there be light, and then started making all sorts of plants and animals.  Tolkein used similar ideas in the Silmarillion.  Obviously there's a lot of hand waving on the part of the storytellers here, but the same general scheme could be applied to your universe.  There could have been an eternally existing god who decided to split itself first into male and female (which could represent or embody all sorts of opposites like light (male) and dark (female), creation (female) and destruction (male), law and chaos, etc.). These would have procreated the other gods and  created the physical world, perhaps initially as a place for their children to live. The alien gods could have sprung from some other eternally existing god (there might have been an infinite number of these gods in the infinite and eternal reaches of the original formless chaos) and then stumbled upon the other gods and their creation, and decided they did not like this creation business at all.  A created world, I suppose, is an embodiment of law, so maybe these alien gods just prefer the original pristine state of chaos that exists elsewhere/elsewhen</blockquote>

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