Originally posted by Mr Master
Eternity created the Celestials through meditation
Celestial manifesting due to Eternity
I normally love your posts Mr. M., but I have debated this particular aspect of the Celestials creation. I agree with you on most of your other points.
It shows the Celestials appear and not be created, if you read it another way it could be interpreted that Eternity summoned the Celestials as opposed to creating them.
The reason I feel that is because there have been Celestials shown in other realities other than 616. Reed Richards stated once that he believed that Hyperstorm was tapping into the same pool of energy that the Celestials used, this was for universe 967. Hyperstorm had the ability to use this power while existing in between realities, and Galactus was able to feed off of it. In short, hyperspace seemed to be the fuel to which time and space were created.
In addition to that, in the alternate timeline where Galactus went crazy after consuming the Black Celestial, he began to consume time and space itself using his machine, and this is why that alternate version had the potential to threaten multiple universes. Now what is it that made Galactus get such a jump up in energy? It was consuming the Celestials that did it. What did Galactus get from pulling the energy from Hyperstorm? Same thing - Hyperspace energy. Not as much energy as a full grown Celestial though of course. It has been shown by occurring in these alternate realities that Hyperspace energy seems to exist outside of the universes within the multiverse.
Given that the Celestials tap into that energy as their main power source, and that it has been hinted at that the Celestials were present in the Eternity that collapsed / imploded and gave it's power to Galactus, it's not a far stretch to say that the Celestials and their bretheren as a race exist outside of regular space and time and have manifestations in the majority of the universes within the multiverse that contains 616. From that conclusion, it could be said then that Celestials themselves are not created by 616 Eternity; rather that he summoned them there, came upon his meditation as the manifestation in other words.