According to the Tumeken's Dream, the creation of Het occurred on the first day of the dream. Tumeken had set out to travel northwards through the desert, taking with him a waterskin filled with the River Elid's essence. As he traveled, Tumeken met many people. And he found that as he wandered further from the River Elid, the people grew weaker. He found himself pitying them and shared with them his waterskin.
However, he eventually crossed a mountain range at the northern border of the desert. And here he met a man. This man stood taller than all around him as he stood in the middle of what is assumed to be the Shantay Pass. He was muscular and olive-skinned, his very being radiating strength and heath.
Tumeken gave a shard of his being to the man lauding him as the strongest of men, and claiming that he would stand as an example to the people to take care of their own physical well-being. And so Het came to become a god.
Now, the myth obviously isn't 100% true. Based on Senlitens' pyramid and dialogue, the lesser desert gods existed prior to the Menaphite lands becoming desert, so a fair chunk of the story can be discounted. That being said, stories like these tend to begin with a grain of truth so it could very well be the case that Het was once human (though I contest your claim that his beard is fake).
However, I'd like to offer an alternative theory. The tale of Tumeken's Dream describes Het as, "standing stock in the middle of the pass, arms outstretched as if he alone were holding back the mountains," and appearing to be, "carved of the same stone as the rocks around him." And what do we see in the Shantay pass today? A sandstone gate split by an oddly placed pillar of sandstone blocks capped by wooden planks bridging the gap to the adjacent walls. What if Het was never a person, but was actually a large statue that originally stood where the pillar of sandstone bricks is now?
25-Apr-2017 19:02:22
