How was Equestria REALLY made?

What happened hundreds of thousands of years before the reign of Princess Celestia? How did ponies come to be? This is an unofficial history of Equestria, from approximately before-the-world-was-formed to post-Celestia. This is the story of the mythology and the journey that formed the great world, told through the the views of various historical (pony and non-pony) figures.