Creation
The Goddesses Create the Land and Sky
Before the creation of the heaven and earth, there was only the Still World. The Goddesses made several attempts at creation, but each time, it was consumed by the Null, the entity that dwelt there. Null hungered indiscriminately for life and wanted the world for itself. The Goddesses, unable to abide its greed, planned to create the heaven and earth as a prison for Null. The three Golden Goddesses descended upon the chaos and began the creation of the world, each of them creating a different facet of the realm. Din created the material realm, Nayru gave the realm law and order, and Farore created all life forms that would follow the said order. Null constantly attempted to consume the creation and so the Goddesses created the Tris to mend the rifts created by Null in order to help maintain the world's balance.
With their labors completed, the Goddesses departed for the heavens, but not before leaving behind the Triforce, three sacred golden triangles representing a small portion of the essence of the goddesses. Because the power of the Triforce was so great, they trusted the sacred relic to the careful hands of the goddess Hylia so that she could protect it from those who would misuse its almighty power. Hylia was also entrusted with the care of the Secret Stones. Since Hylia herself was a goddess, the Triforce was in safe hands, as members of the God's Tribe were forbidden from wielding it. The Goddesses entrusted the protection of the land they created to Hylia. In addition to the Triforce, each goddess left behind a crest. The crests have proliferated throughout time with different groups and species adopting individual crests as their own.[1]
Oral Version
Before time began, before spirits and life existed... Three golden goddesses descended upon the chaos that was Hyrule... Din, the goddess of power... Nayru, the goddess of wisdom... Farore, the goddess of courage.... Din...With her strong flaming arms, she cultivated the land and created the red earth. Nayru... Poured her wisdom onto the earth and gave the spirit of law to the world. Farore...With her rich soul, produced all life forms who would uphold the law. The three great goddesses, their labors completed, departed for the heavens. And golden sacred triangles remained at the point where the goddess left the world. Since then, the sacred triangles have become the basis of our world’s providence. And, the resting place of the triangles has become the Sacred Realm[2].
The Goddesses' Version
Translation Source: Lorulean Historian
この世に天地が創造される前… そこは何も存在しない無の世界だった
Before the creation of this world’s heaven and earth, there was nothing but the Still World.
無の世界では 時折 何かが生まれかけたが そこに棲む者が すべて 食らってしまった
Sometimes, something would take shape in this Still World, but it would quickly be consumed by the entity that dwelt there.
その者の名は ヌゥル…
The name of this entity is… Null…
己のみの世界を享受し ただ見境なく 生をむさぼる
It hungered indiscriminately for life and enjoyed the world for only itself.
その強欲な所業を 見かねた我らは ヌゥルを封じ込め 天地を創造した
We could not abide its greed, and so we contained Null with the creation of heaven and earth.
だが ヌゥルは 我らが創った天地を 無に帰さんと 裂け目を作り続けた
But Null continually produced rifts in the world we had made, hoping to return it to nothing.
裂け目を修復し 天地の安寧を維持するべく 我らは トリィをこの地にもたらした…
In order to mend these rifts, we brought forth the Tris to maintain the world’s balance.
Null's Version
Translation Source: Lorulean Historian
ずっとずっと 遥かな昔… ヌゥルは 無の世界をただよっていた
A long, long, really long time ago… Null drifted in the Still World.
ヌゥルだけの 心地よい世界。ヌゥル以外は なにもいらない世界
A pleasant world only for Null. There was nothing else except for Null in the world.
でも… But…
三女神が 世界を作ったせいで ヌゥルの 心地よい世界が 奪われてしまった
The three goddesses usurped Null’s pleasant world and created THEIR world.
世界を何度壊そうとしても 三女神のしもべの力で すべて元どおりにされてしまう
No matter how often Null tried to destroy the world, the servants of the Goddesses would always undo it all.
だけど この力さえあれば… すべてを 無くすことができる…
But with this power… I can make it all go away…
ヌゥルの望む世界へ… この世の すべてを 無にもどしなさい
I can return this world to nothing… to the world Null desires…
References
- ↑ The Goddesses Create the Land and Sky, The Legend of Zelda: Hyrule Historia (January 29, 2013). Nintendo. Dark Horse Books. p. 70
- ↑ The Great Deku Tree shares the creation myth, The Creation Myth, (The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, 1998)