My partner and I both had phases when we were younger, before we were even friends, where we explored the concepts of creation and the elements. But I’m sure my partner and I weren’t the only ones to do such things!
I’ve still kept some of mine. And now that I check the dates, these are actually from September 2008. 
Anyway, some recent reading plus a conversation with @CelestiaMoon made me think to share. 
She wrote this really nice paragraph that inspired me to go back and find this stuff:
(Also, I was kind of taking over the thread with my reading of a book that came up. 
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At first, there was the Void. It encompassed all, and from the moment it had come into existence, it began to grow. It grew and grew until it became so dense in places that Darkness was born into it. The Darkness split into two groups within the Void; one settled as it were and the other folded into itself, exploding as a new energy — the Light.
There, as it were, the Darkness and the Light encircled each other within the Void, their motion creating the Ether of all things to come. When the Ether itself has grown, out from its core came the Earth — a combination of all the Light and Darkness empowered by the Ether. Around the Earth, the Ether and the Void mingled to encase it in new energy — the Air.
Fragments of the Darkness and the Ether bore their own energies. That which had the Ether strongest within became Metal and settled within the body of the Earth. The energies in which the Darkness was dominant split into numerous pieces, some of which trickled down upon the Earth to become Water, whilst the remainder gathered about near the Earth and formed the Moon and the passage of Time.
Meanwhile, fragments of the Light and Ether, too formed their own energies. Where the Ether was strongest, Wood was created and began covering areas of the Earth where it fell. Fire was born where the Light had been strongest, some of which took root within the heart of the Earth whilst the rest drifted away from the Earth to become the Sun and bore the Spirit.
On the Earth, the Fire and the Earth itself created Lava beneath the land. In the meantime, the Water and the Air together formed Ice at the highest peaks of the land.
The Moon and the Sun too, circled the Earth, starting the passage of Time and beginning the cycle of the Seasons. It was in Spring that the Spirit awoke Life within the Earth, in Summer that it thrived, in Autumn that it settled, and in Winter that the cycle rest and the end of Life came into being — Death, a transition in which the energy of those living returned to the Ether from which all energies could be born again.
Without restraint, all the energies were, and so, from within the Void came the energies which would govern them — the Eternal Ones, beings which were capable of taking forms empowered by Spirit. Each energy had its own Keeper, and for all of them, there were twelve: Earth, Air, Metal, Water, Wood, Fire, Lava, Ice, Life, Death, Moon, and Sun.
The originals:
I have no idea how I came up with this. Elements, at most, meant like Pokemon or Naruto elements to me back then. 
Do you have any recommended reading, or should I stick to Awakening Shakti?
and water 
(also representing other dualities) into nonduality, which is represented by the unbroken circle 
I think I’ve found a nice balance between using the fancy words where they are descriptive and avoiding using them for their own sake, but it did take some time… 
I’m also becoming drawn to this, personally. But I’ve had to make some concessions as I’ve yet to successfully keep plants due to forgetting to water them, and I live in an apartment, with no intention of ever living in a house. 
The organizers got tired of their responsibility though… I was about to pick it up from there (I’ve never organized anything like that before!) but the whole thing kind of got interrupted, first from me catching covid, and then summer break 
I was a smart kid, I knew where there was smoke there was fire 
It’s more a comment that I think it’s kind of weird and goopy when cooked.