By Aislin Ni MorRhiaghan ©2005
This is a fundamental question that we have all at some point asked ourselves and others as well only to receive the same answers over and over again. When looking into our origins, I first began looking into the paleontologic aspects of the actual origins of man and the behavior of those early primal beings for something that would be logical to me. To say that I know everything about where we began or where we originated would be arrogant and erroneous and so all I have to offer are my theories and hypothesis, nothing more. Knowing that not everyone is a spiritual person or even a religious one, I’ve included a more basic suggestion of origins of our kind at the end of my conjecture.
Through my consideration years ago, I found that some
studies among our kind revealed several ties between the
communities of Otherkin, Therian, Sanguine, and Psy alike.
It seems that all of us have some anomaly that in some way
separates us apart from others. We have some common
deficiencies such as B12, lactose intolerance, food
allergies, nocturnal natures, and to some extent or another,
an intolerance to light as well as strong empathy, psychic
and pranic bonds with each other, healing, and a greater
extrasensory perception than most mundane people. This
indicates to me that we are more than just cousins. We have
a common ancestral tie. It is too much of a coincidence that
random people sharing some of the same symptoms would also
have similar natures and so I began to see the community not
as separate individuals but as a tribe.
Looking into mythological beings (and from most perspectives
we are just that), almost always leads to yet more myths and
legends. The truth is there is a little bit of truth in
every myth and even more answers to be found by examining
them. As I examined more myths of our kind I saw
similarities between not only the creation of the Vampyre
race, but also of the Nature Spirits, the Children of the
Gods, and both as direct lineages of the Divine in
accordance with the development of humanity. I often consider what the Ancients mean to me, who I
perceive them to be, where I perceive them to come from, and
how they relate to me and my current incarnation. What I
concluded is that the Creators, after sharing their breath
of life and tethering us together through the silver strands
of delicately woven Spirit, went a step further. Most
religions accept that there was more than one; male and
female that played an equal part in the Creation of all
there is. Thus they also played an integral part in the
spiritual and metaphysical development of the human race
that resulted in the Vampyres and all of their cousins. From the very beginnings of time humanity has sought to
commune with the Divine in mystical, magickal, and
altogether spiritual ways. We have created traditions of
magick and mysticism, eons of precious philosophy based
around the improvement and empowerment of our spiritual
bodies and mind. In seeking that communion with the Divine,
Divinity itself, both as the Androgyny and as Mother and
Father, took into Their service those men and women who
desired a spiritual bond above all others in the form of
Priest and Priestess teaching them the mysteries through
visions, dreams, spiritual communion, and intuitive
discovery. To assist with their teachings They created
aspects of themselves in ways that would be appealing to
more mundane beings, appearing to Their followers as visions
and dreams. To some They would appear as a great dragon, to
others as a beautiful woman or man, and still to others as
angelic beings surrounded by pure radiant light. In time these aspects sought physical communion as well as
spiritual with humanity and incarnated giving humanity
physical contact with the Gods and Goddesses they loved so
much. Being unable to support the same amount of prana that
they were able to carry with them in infinite spiritual form
and being limited to a physical form rather, it is possible
that They lost prana or could not produce the amount needed
to support Their spiritual infinity within a finite physical
form. Priests and Priestesses of the incarnated Ancients
were trained by the Ancients Themselves to both give and
receive prana in effect learning to heal using energy, to
become donors to those that became weakened by physical
constraints, and to manifest their desires by walking
between the worlds, being in service to the Ancients as
conduit between themselves and the rest of humanity and also
being the living donors to the Ancients. Because the physical and spiritual forms of a being can not
manifest on the same plane at the same time, They were
unable to revert to Their original spiritual forms and
remained in Their physical bodies. Over time They took to
Themselves human mates taking into Their service as priests
and priestesses and as beloveds and Their offspring being
human but having a stronger sense of the mystical and
inheriting the need for prana as well. These half human
offspring were the foundations for the legend of world
mythologies and the first race of humanity. In time, as most things do, the Ancients returned to the
realm of the Spirit to be incarnated again later on in time.
It is possible that they assimilated through physical death
or returned through spiritual ascension into Their complete
Divinity. One thing is certain. At some point, the Ancients
left humanity and communicate to Their children still just
as They did in those first days of man. In the meantime,
Their offspring developed in many different ways. Just as
the incarnated Ancients took human mates, They first took
each other as Divine lovers producing a race of purely
Divine offspring, the Fae. As their parents were adept
shape-shifters and magi so were Their children. The true
children of the original incarnated aspects the Fae, or the
Other, also took to themselves human mates and the breeding
of vampyric humans with Other resulted in the Liannon
shidhe, the Bdobhan shidhe, and countless other beings who
would also take to themselves human mates, perhaps even
other offspring of the incarnated Ancients. These humans
were among the first races of humans created and they
remained through survival of the fittest as living children
of the Ancients. To arrive where we are now, we must fast forward through
countless centuries of human development, nomadic traveling,
and genetic diversity. I suspect that the original race of
vampyres was very small indeed as the first selection of
priests and priestesses would have been very limited given
the populations, individual spiritual awareness, and mental
development. Reaching the point of enlightenment and
spiritual Truth would have and still does, taken many years
of study and training. Through communion, the Ancients would
have given the priest and priestess an overpowering
charisma, intellect, and strength perhaps even causing them
to be worshiped as minor deities themselves. As humanity
progressed and became more sophisticated so did their views
on the Divine. Now I must switch to another topic that is tied to but not
an obvious part of the origins of our kind. The gift of free
will and spiritual blueprinting, in which the Ancients
gifted us, Vampyre and mundane alike, with the ability to
make our own decisions in as much as even being able to
decide what would happen to us after our physical bodies
expire. At the time of creating the spiritual ribbons that
bind not only one soul to the other, but each soul to the
source of all creation, the Divine gave to their new
creations the decisions to map our every move, thought,
decision, life lesson, path, obstacles, joys as well as
tragedies prior to incarnating. We map out our lives down to
the flecks of colors in our eyes, when we would acquire our
first teeth and take our first steps in numerous blueprints.
The final blueprinting is a collection of all of them,
finely edited and attune to give us the abilities to grow
and manifest our lives in positive and spiritual ways. At
the time of incarnation, we have already decided to come
into this world as either mundane or as Vampyre so that we
have many lifetimes when we have lived as a normal every day
person and in another life time as Vampyre, Therian, or
Otherkin; unless of course, we choose otherwise. This is the
ultimate form of parental love and acceptance. I include the
concept of blueprinting and free will only to separate the
spiritual condition of vampyrism from the physical concept
of genetics, which is in itself highly questionable as an
inherent origin. The more scientific theories of our origins include
recessive genetics, citing a hereditary ancestral condition
that only occurs occasionally. That we may have long lines
of Vampyres within our families is no indicator of recessive
genes unless we maintain those genes through inbreeding. In
some cultures, the concept of intermarrying within the
family to preserve a lineage may have at one time been
common, also including preserving a vampyric lineage as
well. However, because we choose our aspects prior to coming
into our incarnations it is unlikely that this is the case.
Throughout history we have seen cases of this type of
inbreeding and the end results, bringing about a sort of
revenant condition in which someone exhibits Nightkind
tendencies but because of their mental instability is a
danger not only to themselves but to everyone else around
them. Historical cases of Lycanthropy, Prions disease, or
Renfield’s Syndrome in which madness is accompanied by the
desire to consume human flesh and blood have often been
mistaken for Vampyrism or Therianothropy. Other theories of Nightkind origins not steeped in mental
illness include physical disease, such as Porphyria which is
a condition that causes the blood cells to disintegrate due
to a B12 deficiency resulting in a severe anemic condition.
Anemia in any form is a result of either genetics or
deficiency and is by all definitions an illness not related
to vampyrism as vampyrism can and does exist separate from
this condition. Porphyria is also an inherited condition
caused by interfamilial marrying somewhere down the line and
is a recessive trait. Today the illness is extremely rare,
although it is commonly blamed for our nature. Over time I have tried to go over the myths and lore and
discover the origins of our kind and have concluded that the
original locale was not in effect Africa, which may well
have been the origins of the second age of humanity, but in
Northern Europe. Taking into effect that the descriptions of
Vampyres and Therians have been found on caves, carvings, on
altars, and some of the more ancient standing monuments and
temple spaces as well as resplendent throughout myths and
lore, the original Vampyres were from the more Northern
climates. Although the climate during the first age may have
been more jungle like and not as cold as we consider
Northern Europe to be now, we know that these sacred places
were used for human sacrifices as well as initiation,
worship, lunar, and celestial celebrations. We are only just
breaking the skin of the uses for these places. Recently a
circle of monoliths strikingly similar to Stonehenge was
found in Siberia, showing that these places were not merely
a product of the Druidic cultures. Moving further southward,
we also see other monuments and sacred spaces such as those
found on Easter Island. Anthropology tells us that the first race was a nomadic sort
and actively traveled across the then singular continent of
Afro-Euro-Stralia. Whether or not the Americas were a part
of that is still very much debated. All were part of one
great continent in which case the various tribes assimilated
into their own territories and began the cultures that
influenced the shaping of the world. In time, many of these
races were driven to extinction either by their own actions
or by environmental, stellar, or political reasons. In these
ways, the Ancients traveled with Their tribes and in each
culture became living representatives of the Divine. Many legends and much evidence cite the first identifiable
humans as originating from Africa and it is very well true
also. Science has proven that at one time there was a great
disaster, whether it was natural as in the case of the flood
or whether it was a huge astronomical disaster of one or
more asteroids, the face of the world and human civilization
was greatly changed. Humanity was not completely destroyed
but was greatly limited and the first emerging humans came
out of Africa. There are still many parts of Siberia that
have yet to be explored and it would be fair to say that the
most primitive man would not have created such exact
monuments to their deities. In this way humanity survived
and our legends and traces of divine lineage of the Ancient
Ones remained. Today we as living descendents of those first
Vampyres, countless incarnations later, have that same
beautiful connection with the Ancients through dreams,
visions, and astral visitation. Just as the incarnated
aspects of the Divine tried to fit an infinite creation into
a finite shell, we also are more in tune with our infinite
selves so much so that we have a higher vibration thus
requiring a steady input of life force to maintain our
health and physical shells. These are just my theories and conjectures. No one should
ever accept any statement of origins that does not ring true
to their Spirit. Nothing that I have here is expressed as
fact. As always, we should be open to what the Ancients are
telling us and should examine and question everything until
we find our own truth through intuitive discovery.