It is true that I have sent six bullets through the head of my best friend, and yet I hope to shew by this statement that I am not his murderer. It began when the dragons arrived. (H.P. Lovecraft, The Thing on the Doorstep)
In the beginning when God created the heavens and the earth, the earth was a formless void and darkness covered the face of the deep, while a wind from God swept over the face of the waters. And then the dragons arrived.