YARAAY (Sun) How the Sun was Made Mug

YARAAY (Sun) How the Sun was made In the begging of the Dreaming there was no sun, only a moon and stars. That was before there were men on the earth, only birds and animals, all of which were many sizes larger than they are now. One day Dinewan the Emu and Brolga native companions were on a large plain. There they were, quarrelling and fighting. Brolga, in her rage, rushed to the nest of Dinewan and seized from it one of the huge eggs, which she threw with all her force up to the sky. There it broke on a heap of firewood, which burst into flame as the yellow yolk spilled all over it, and lit up the world below to the astonishment of every creature on it. They had been used to the semi-darkness and were dazzled by such brightness. A good spirit who lived in the sky saw how bright and beautiful the earth looked when lit up by this blaze. He thought it would be a good thing to make a fire every day, and from that time he has done so.  All night he and his attendant spirits collect wood and heap it up. When the heap is nearly big enough they send out the morning star to warn those on earth that the fire will soon be lit.