Julie's+Myth

by Julie
Way, way back many centuries ago, there was water, land, animals, people, the sky and Sun, that big yellow thing we see in certain hours these days. Land went all around the world and the Sun never moved. Sun could only shine its light on one part of the land. The people in the Sun’s land liked the light when they were awake, but it annoyed them at night. The people in the land the Sun didn’t cover hated it dark and wondered if the legend of light was real.

Well, there was a woman named Maria Friedman who lived in a land where there was a little light all day long. She called it the Dim Land. Maria was strong enough to walk around the world in only a few days and saw the completely light areas and completely dark areas. She told the people in the dark they deserved to see a little light, and they asked her to ask Sun for help. She also told the people in the light they should be able to see the dark sometimes, and they asked her to ask the Sun for help, too. She was just tall enough when she stood on top of the tallest mountain Sun covered on her toes to ask her, “Hey, Sun, you can only cover so much land, can you cover the darker part of the sky?”

 “I don’t know about that, Marie Osmond, whose brother Donny Osmond is just so cool,” Sun replied.

 “It’s Maria Friedman!” Maria replied. But she and Marie Osmond were so great they live forever; they weren’t born in the sixties—they just say they are because it’s not anyone else’s business. “Do you have any friends up there who could bring light to the places you don’t cover?”

 “Well, let me just try something really quick,” Sun replied. She seemed to turn a bit, and she replied in pain, “No…no, I can’t move around so fast.”

 “Well, maybe you could send someone else to cover the other lands so you can move slower. When you take its place he or she can cover the other land you already shined light on.”

 The sun screamed, making Maria’s poor forehead burn. She put her face on the ground to prevent it and the mountain shook. She screamed in terror until a calm and cheerful voice said as the ground shook, “Hey, Maria, it’s okay.”

She looked up and saw a huge white sphere by her feet. “Who are you?” she said, still a little freaked out by the sun’s scream and hoping, if she had a sunburn, it wasn’t too bad.

 “I’m Moon, Sun’s son,” he said, the ground shaking more.

 “Yeah, well, you’re causing a lot of tension on the land, can you go into space to talk?”

 “Sure thing,” he replied. He flew back up, making the land shake harder. “I guess I’m heavy.”

 No duh, Maria thought. “So do you think you could go around the land to make places light and dark at different times with Sun?”

 “Sure, sounds fun,” Moon said. “Wanna start trying, Mom?”

 “I think this’ll work out,” Sun said.

 Maria traveled to the Dark to spread the word about Moon after telling the people in the Light why the Earth was shaking and that they’ll finally see the dark. She stayed in her homeland, the Dim part and watched Sun slowly roll by as planned, making where she was very light until Sun wasn’t seen. After a while, she was in complete darkness. The town crier from a place in the light said in his town crier voice that seemed to be his only tone, “Maria, we only see a little light from the Sun and no moon!”

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> A town crier from the dark lands came and said, “We only see a little light!”

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Maria looked up and saw a tiny bit of white light in the dark sky. “Moon!” she shouted. She said to the town criers, “Go back to your lands, I gotta fix something. They left and she climbed the tallest tree she could find to talk to Moon. “Moon,” she said. “Why is there only a tiny bit of you?”

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> “I feel freezing on one side but hot on the other,” he said. “My left side is cold.” <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> “Well, maybe Sun doesn’t light you up enough.”

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> A light ran to Maria and shouted in a powerful voice, “Oh, are they whining because I’m moving too slow? I’m setting! It takes a while!”

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> “You’re only making me light a little, Mom,” Moon said.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> “I can only move so fast, they’ll just have to deal with it,” Sun responded as the ground shook and the branch Maria sat upon started to snap.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> “It’ll do!” Maria cried, terrified of falling. She landed on the ground and set out to travel the land to tell everyone what happened. Maria told the land used to the light and the land used to the dark that Sun may be huge, but she can only cover so much of the moon that can’t shine by itself. They got used to it. As Moon grew older, he made trips to the land to visit Maria but he cracked the land. Now, there are seven huge chunks of the same land. The lands are still sharing and appreciating their time seeing Sun and Moon. If you don’t, that’s a pity because the Sun and Moon are very old now and moving takes a lot of energy with no breaks. They look down at you and envy the fact you’re listening to your Justin Timberlake and playing your Nintendo DS while they’re showing light to places every waking hour! Show some respect, people! They work very hard!

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