Scarlett's+Myth

 **Why is the Sky Blue?**
In the beginning the sky wasn’t blue. It was all white. It made everything look dull. The trees, rocks, and flower colors were less bright and cheery. The water didn’t look sparkly with colorful fish. The people and animals tried using their paint to color everything, but the paint didn’t do anything. Then one day an owl thought, “We’ve tried coloring everything, but we haven’t tried coloring the sky.”

The owl told everybody his idea, and they decided to give it a shot. They started to collect different stones with different types of colors. They started with a stone that had a dull red color by smashing it into tiny little pieces. They took some water from the oceans and rivers to mix with the pieces of stone. The water became a red color, and they threw it into the white sky. Everything was covered with a tint of red. The things that were originally red looked more colorful. The people and animals decided they wanted to try a different color. Then they tried green, brown, pink, purple and all the other colors, but the people didn’t like how the colors made everything look. After they tried a light colored yellow, the people and animals began to think that it wouldn’t work but the owl didn’t give up yet. The owl said, “ Don’t give up yet, we have one color left.”

Everybody, the people and animals, picked up dull blue stones and turned it into paint and threw it into the air. The sky became blue, but there was a bright yellow spot that hadn’t been covered. They saw that the sky was moving and as they saw that as the bright yellow spot got closer and closer to the ground, the sky became pink, orange, purple, red, and blue. It was unlike anything they had ever seen before. They then realized that they had put all the colors in the sky so that the sky would show all the colors at certain times of the day. They went to sleep that night and the next day the people felt how hot it was outside. They realized that the bright yellow spot was creating heat. It was becoming really, really hot out, so they decided to put some of the white back into the sky to block out some of the heat. The white spots became clouds and the bright yellow spot became the sun. And that is how the the sky became blue and how the sun and clouds got there.


 * The moral or lesson to be learned is: ** You have to try other things before you finally get to the thing you are happy with.

The End

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