[ wp ] Myths tell us where things come from ( ex . echoes are from Echo , a person cursed to repeat what others said ) . Write a mythological origin story for a common modern object .

Man once existed as one with the spiritual realm. His soul as apparent to him as his flesh, but when he fell, as his mind, his desires his physical form all hurtled towards his earthly restraint and his soul could not follow. Trapped and separated he floundered and cried out for his ethereal essence. So we came down to him as portals, gateways to the spiritual planes. He peered deep into us and we reflected back the soul that he longed for. Through us he accessed the auspices that were once so intrinsic to him thus he once again found guidance and contentment. But as the centuries faded so to did his memory of his true home, knowing only this world he no longer recognised his inherent yearning for the hidden one, instead he sought the glamour of this earth and it's riches to salve the fissure of the world once lost. When he came to us and peered into our depths we reflected back what he desired to see. Till the sight of his spiritual home became blurred to him, then veiled and finally lost. His eyes became blinded to that beyond this dimension and as he peered into us we were no longer portals no longer gateways but objects reflecting back the world he now craved. Nothing but mere mirrors.
