Jade+B.

How Thunder Came to Be by Jade B.

A long time ago, it was always sunny, bright and happy. It never thundered, and it was never dark. The sun never went down. The people never knew why it was sunny all the time, but they didn’t mind it because they were very happy kind of people. Why was it always happy and sunny? Because the angels up above were always happy. They were always picking flowers and smiling.

One day, the angels were tired of picking flowers and their mouths hurt from smiling so much. They wanted to do something they hadn’t done in awhile. One of them came up with the idea to go bowling. All the other angels thought it was a good idea; they hadn’t done that in awhile because they were always doing happy thing like picking flowers and sprinkling sparkles all around. When the got there, the first angel to bowl was the strongest and toughest angel. When she threw the bowling ball, it was down by the pins in seconds. When it hit the pins, it went...//BOOM//. It was earth shaking, and it sounded like a lion's roar.The angels were worried that the people would be scared, but they just loved to bowl.

The people down on Earth were scared! Some people had read about thunder in books but never heard it in real life. The older generations had heard it, maybe once or twice, but were shocked to hear it again. Some people thought it was too scary. Others thought it was very distracting to do work or talk on the phone.

From this point on, when the angels were having fun bowling, people were happy for them and were not sad, scared, or distracted by the thunder. The people knew that the angels were having a good time bowling. They also noticed when it was sunny all the time, it got kind of boring. I mean, personally, if it was happy and sunny all the time, wouldn’t you get bored too? It’s fun to have the weather change from sun, rain, to snow. There were still sunny days, so they weren’t gone forever. Also, when it thundered, it usually meant it would rain. The rain would water the flowers and cool things down when they got to hot. But why it rains is a whole other story. Return to Oral Traditions Myths