This section holds the Myths of the Creation Cycle, the stories peoples told about how the world began. The Library gathers them as they were told and files each as one telling among many.

The myths disagree about the method. Some say a maker shaped the world by hand, with care and intent. Others say it began by accident, or broke loose from something older, or rose out of a rebellion, or passed down as an inheritance, or came as a repair for a wound nothing else could close. The same beginning looks different in each telling, and the Library keeps every telling.

It keeps them because a myth does more than explain. A myth carries the warnings, loyalties, and fears of the people who held it, and those people acted on what they believed. A story that sent a nation to war, or held one back from it, has done real work in the world whether or not it is literally true. The Library files that work as evidence. Now and then a story the Library kept only for its weight has matched a structure the later Archives found, and that match earns it a second reading.

Here a myth need not be the only true one. Belief shapes what holds in this world, and the Cycle turns and tells the beginning again, so two accounts that contradict each other can both be true at once. The Library marks the contradiction and does not try to close it.

More myths will be added as the Archive grows, because every people that remembers a beginning remembers it their own way, and the Library has not yet heard them all.