Chaos
After the incredible creation, chaos dominates the city on the first night. The newly created humans are confused and engage in actions that make the brothers think they created subhumans. Rushdie writes, “By now many of their new progeny had fallen asleep, in the street, on the doorstep of the palace, in the shadow of the temple, everywhere. There was also a rank odor in the air, because hundreds of the citizens had fouled their garments." The disorderliness in the city is expected because the universe is new, and humans have not been accustomed to their new world. They are like young children who must be trained from scratch to live. Later on, the chaos subsides, and life becomes more orderly. The newly created humans need time to grow.
Seeds
Pampa conceptualizes how a past, a city, and reality could be grown from seeds. Seeds are potential sources of all manner of life and the conditions required for life to flourish. Pampa speculates, “Suppose you had a sackful of seeds…Then suppose you could plant them and grow a city, and grow its inhabitants too, as if people were plants... Suppose now that the seeds could grow generations, and bring forth a history, a new reality and an empire.” Hukka and his brother feel that Pampa's scenarios are equivalent to fairy tales since they do not possess such seeds. However, she later returns the seeds they had brought to the monk and instructs them to use them to grow a new city. The seeds bring forth all the things that Pampa had described.
Creation of Reality
Pampa uses fiction to create the realities of the people that came from magical seeds. The people have no souls thus, they do not understand themselves. Rushdie elucidates, "She was making up their lives, their castes, their faiths, how many brothers and sisters they had, and what childhood games they had played, and sending stories whispering through the streets into the ears that needed to hear them, writing the grand narrative of the city, creating its story nor that she had created its life." Without such fictional stories, the people in the city would be nothing. The make-believe stories give them a sense of a past and being. The people's creation occurred on the same day. They appeared there on the same day; thus, they do not have stories passed on from previous generations. Pampa uses make-believe stories in her life to fashion the city's reality.
