My Little Pony Cosmogony?

[SugarfootWillie 383]

I know there are a few instances in MLP where some historically significant event is detailed (i.e. Hearth's Warming Story), but is there a cosmogony, and where can I find it?

[Daring_Do 552]

Had to look up what this word meant. Nah, I don't know of any canon on this, and I've watched all the episodes/read all the IDW comics/read most of the chapter books. So if there *is* a canon origin of the pony universe, it'd be in some more obscure expanded universe material. (You'd be surprised what you can find in there; One of those foreign language magazine comics actually shed a little light on the world outside Equestria. And apparently there's no barley in Equestria.)

[SugarfootWillie 383]

Thanks man, this leaves me with a large amount of creative liberty for my OC's back story.

[I used to be a stranger 7,994]

The philosophical origins of the My Little Pony universe is pretty sparse, if it exists at all. It's not like Arda of J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-Earth, which has its own creation myths in Tolkien's accidental analogy for God, "Ea".

 

Depending upon who you ask, the My Little Pony universe generally has two-ish theories on where their world came from.

 

The first is tongue-and-cheek reference to the existence of some ponified analog of Catholicism called Fausticism, wherein Lauren Faust would be considered a divine creator or something like that. This idea is very vague and often left un-detailed, presumably because the majority of fan-fiction authors who would ever try to concern themselves with such a thought are irreligious to some degree. (Hence it being more of a joke than a theory.) From which it would be easy to infer that "the Great Faust" created the MLP universe, and her "Pitch Bible" details many characteristics of why.

 

The second is trying to tactfully address the meta-logic of how we think and think quite seriously about a cartoonish land of candy-colored mammals with physically impossible skulls and giant eyes. Often this is either cut short before it is explored in an interesting way, is poorly written, or is combined with a very unfortunate or denigrating outlook on existence (or some combination thereof) and ends up being some tone of thought very unlike the actual show's content. So it sooner or later comes right out that the MLP universe doesn't exist; it's just a figment of our imaginations.

 

Third (usually never mentioned) is some presumption that the MLP universe by its own means either came into existence for no reason at all some time in the past, or has always existed.

 

Those would be cosmogenies.

 

If you meant talking about the ancient history of Equestria before "the Pre-Classical period", such as before Princess Celestia and Princess Luna ruled Equestria, you'd best brief yourself on the show from G1 and G2.

[Daring_Do 552]

If you meant talking about the ancient history of Equestria before "the Pre-Classical period", such as before Princess Celestia and Princess Luna ruled Equestria, you'd best brief yourself on the show from G1 and G2.

The idea that the previous generations of MLP are set in G4's past is just fanon, though. Canonically this seems to be a completely rebooted continuity of its own.