Manichaean cosmogony: The God of Light sends a representative Nāšā Qaḏmāyā ("original man", in Aramaic), to battle with the attacking powers of Darkness, which include the Demon of Greed. The original man is armed with five different shields of light, which he loses to the forces of darkness in the ensuing battle. A call is then issued from the world of Light to the Original Man ("call" thus becomes a Manichaean deity), and an answer ("answer" becoming another Manichaean deity) returns from the Original Man to the world of Light. The myth continues with many details of how light is captured into the world of matter, and eventually liberated by entrapping some great demons and causing them to become sexually aroused by "Twelve Virgins of Light", and involuntarily expelling the light from within their bodies. The light is then once again entrapped in the world of darkness and matter. The myth continues, eventually arriving at the creation of living beings in the material world, Adam and Eve, and the appearance of Jesus at the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil in the Garden of Eden. ...if I try to incorporate this into Kingdom Hearts I'm going to hell, right?
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