Hmm, here's a thought on the two creation stories. I thought about it when I remembered this quote, from Heinlein's
Stranger in a Strange Land. (Which, btw, is a book of amazing wisdom!:)) Valentime Michael Smith is of human ancestry, but was raised on Mars by Martians, who are
extremely different from us. In this passage, he's talking to a human named Jubal, who is trying to help Mike understand what religion is.
"Mike, who made the world?"
"Beg pardon?"
"Look around you. All this. Mars, too. The stars. Everything. You and me and everybody. Did the Old Ones tell you who made it?"
Mike looked puzzled. "No, Jubal."
"Well, you have wondered about it, haven't you? Where did this all come from? Who put the stars in the sky? Who started it all? All of it, everything, the whole world, the Universe - . so that you and I are I talking." Jubal paused, surprised at himself. He had intended to take the usual agnostic approach . . . and found himself compulsively following his legal training, being an honest advocate in spite of himself, attempting to support a religious belief he did not hold but which was believed by most human beings. He found that, willy-nilly, he was attorney for the orthodoxies of his own race against-he wasn't sure what. An unhuman viewpoint. "How do your Old Ones answer such questions?"
"Jubal, I do not grok ... that these are questions. I am sorry."
"Eh? I don't grok your answer."
Mike hesitated a long time. "I will try. But words are ... are not rightly. Not 'putting.' Not 'mading.' A nowing. World is. World was. World shall be. Now."
"'As it was in the beginning, so is now and ever shall be, World without end-'"
Mike smiled happily. "You grok it!"
"I don't grok it," Jubal answered gruffly...
If the universe of the Land is eternal, always was, always shall be, then there IS no actual creation. But maybe
any creation myth can be treated/used as though it
was true, if the beings trying to use it have sufficient power.
I know, I know!!!!

This isn't without problems. The first that springs to my mind is - Who or what, then, is the Beggar/Creator that talked to Covenant? I don't claim this will leave less confusion than what we already have, I just thought it was a fun spin on the topic, and I love Mike's
"Not 'putting.' Not 'mading.' A nowing. World is. World was. World shall be. Now."