The Creation of the Sun A myth of one of the Australian Aborigine Peoples, retold by Sarah Steele  Text Only Version

In the beginning, when the world was , there was no sun and the humans and animals had to hunt and gather by the light of the dim moon.  One day the brolga and the emu had a  argument over whose babies were . The brolga got so furious that she stole one of the emu’s eggs which she threw into the sky.  As she threw it into the air it smashed on a  sticks. The  yolk burst into flames and lit up the earth.  The beauty of the land could be seen for the  time by the people of the sky. They thought the land was so beautiful that they decided to light a  fire as soon as the morning star appeared. This didn’t work all the time because on an  day the star couldn’t be seen.

The star people decided to ask the Kookaburra to help because of his loud, striking call. He was asked to call every morning so that they knew when to  the sun.

That’s why the kookaburra can be heard first thing every morning before the fire starts to burn.  The fire only lets a  amount of light and heat, and gradually it gets hotter and brighter.  During the day, after it brightens, the fire begins to burn out, so the light dims again.