When Worlds Collide.

They were right to make Shiva a dancer.

Destruction unfortunately is a topic that is often avoided in our society. Vilified, antagonized and as such believed to be an unnatural force in nature.

But this is far from the truth.

I believe violence and destruction like all things has its place. The difficult part about violence and destruction is having the wisdom to replace its seemingly chaotic nature with the cognitive power of the human mind.

But to do that, we first need some positive examples.

And I'm not talking examples in human history, there are good ones yes, but they are not examples of natural violence...at least not considered natural by us...(That pesky ego rises again!)

Lets wind the clocks back to when the Earth was hell.

4 billion years ago.

Once upon a time the third planet from the sun, Earth, like all of the other rocky worlds within the solar system, (which would eventually be named "The Goldy-Locks Zone"by its later inhabitants), was in the state of chaotic formation.

In fact this world more than others seemed to lack the stability of it's neighbouring planets such as Mars and Venus.

The Earth just didn't seem to know how to mature.
So it remained a hellish cinder.
Spewing liquid rock into space for many years to come...and who knows...possibly even longer if it weren't for the fourth planet from the sun.

Nope. I'm not talking about the god of war.

Once upon a time Mars was not the fourth rock from the sun but the fifth.

The fourth planet from the sun was a world we now call Theia.

Theia. Named after the mother of Luna, the Greek god of the Moon.

There is little known about this world at the moment other than its legacy and it's apparent love for chaotic gravitational dance.

This dance is performed by all planets that are lit by our yellow star.

But Theia as it seemed, had an apparent distaste for order.

A distaste that led her to her violent end.

One fateful year, Theia's dance spun her too close to her long time cosmic partner, the Earth.

And that fateful year...

Was the year that worlds collided.

The two planets smashed into each other's surfaces.

Metal and rock was sent spurting into space.

Two solids twisted and contorted until they resembled nothing more than a fiery cosmic stain.

The collision ensured the death of both worlds...

...or so it seemed.

Theia's love of chaos may have ended her life as a planet.

But it was a trait her children most definitely inherited...

Out of the shredded material that was Theia and Proto-Earth, came the dancers.

One on which we stand today.

The other, illuminates our night skies.

The Earth and the Moon.

The only dancing couple in the Solar system.

A four billion year old waltz resulting in the stability of the Earth's magnetic field, atmosphere, oceanic tides, and eventually, the stability necessary for Earth's most unique and precious trait.

A cosmic dance born of chaos and destruction.
Led to life on Earth.

And this is the legacy we carry on to this day.

The very blood in our veins is the result of a cosmic journey that began with the Big Bang, coalesced within the heart of the sun, cooled into the planets that dot our heavens, and now find its way back into our hearts to be recycled into another heartbeat.

We are not human.

We are the cosmos.

Its chaos, its destruction, its love of dance.

Everything we have, are, and will experience was already written within the chemical components of a hydrogen atom.

But let's not think that the story ends with us.

We are still becoming.

And considering where we came from...

I'd say there's a lot to look forward to...


It's no wonder they made Shiva a dancer.

- Adrian B.