[ 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 .

Deep within the bowels of the earth, there lies a secretive and fiendish entity. This is a being of decay and destruction: taking the bodies of plants and animals alike and crushing them in its hot, heavy hands until there is nothing left but a poisonous black liquid. This entity loathes all things on the surface: sunlight, the wind, the atmosphere we breathe and seeks to turn the world above into a place as dark and devilish as the world below. 
 
 `` How does it do this?'' You might ask, `` how can an entity lying beneath the earth exert such influence on the world above?'' The answer is that it's methods are as cunning and malicious as itself - It preys on the fears and desires of men. Creeping it's black product up through the ground, it promises those unsuspecting discoverers of this poison infinite wealth and power - a chance to turn the fortunes of even the most destitute and despairing. Yet this cursed liquid comes at a heavy price, those that consume it become addicted by its power. Always needing more, this curse creates an unquenchable thirst. So overwhelming is this thirst that those that discover it will literally destroy the world around them just to find more, and more, and more.. 
 
 And while this entity sits back and allows the slaves of its poison to destroy their world, it knows that it edges closer and closer towards ultimate goal.. Millions of years of waiting for the demon - known only to us as `` Oil'' - is almost over. 
 
 EDIT: `` unquenchable thirst'' - autocorrect is n't perfect
