How the Gobi Desert Was Created
Peak School, Maya Mathur, Fiction: Group 2
A
long time ago, when only a few humans walked the earth, the earth was mainly water
and the gods had only started to make proper land. There were two types of gods at
that point, there were the water gods and the land gods. All of the gods had to work
together to make land because land needs to have both water and earth so that plants
can grow and living things can survive.
One morning, all the earth gods were waiting patiently for Kantef the king of gods to come.
All the gods were really excited to know what the meeting was all about. Kantef walked in and
surveyed the crowd. Then half talking, half shouting, he said “The water gods have agreed that
we need to make more land.” With lots of cheering from the crowd he continued “we shall have to
vote to see who will choose where the land will be placed.”
The voting would be on the next day. It was a really big thing and all the gods were there
watching. In the end Parac the animal god won. A lot of people were disappointed because they
had hoped they would win or someone else, but one god was absolutely furious. Kalth was his
name, and he was the sand god. He had been hoping that he would be the one to choose where the
land would be. Feeling hatred towards all the other gods, he ran away. He didn’t realize that this
same problem had happened to Tarj a water god.
A few hours later all the other gods realized that Kalth and Tarj had run away, so they started
to look for them. After a while Aseeth the plant goddess and Sech the goddess of seasons found
both of them floating on a cloud over parts of Mongolia and China. Tarj was towards the back,
making sure that the water in the cloud would not fall, which would send them plummeting
into the water. Kalth was towards the front. He had a look of concentration on his face. Sech
had beckoned everyone over, so that they could see what Kalth was doing with that look of
concentration on his face. Then suddenly Kantef realized what Kalth was planning to do. He
ordered Sech, Aseeth and Parac to go down to stop him. By the time the three of them had
reached down there, Kalth had already finished. At that point, Kalth realized that he had made
a huge mistake. He and all the other gods tried to fix the sand problem but they just couldn’t.
All that water had turned into sand. As they watched the five of them float back up Kantef
was already thinking of a punishment for both of them. Kalth’s punishment was that he had to
make another sixty-one of those deserts which is why the Earth has sixty one deserts. Tarj’s
punishment was that he had convert all his powers into plants and animals, and those plants and
animals went to all the deserts of the world. The Mongolians were the first to come and live there,
and in Mongolian Gobi means desert. That is the story of how the Gobi Desert was created.
