Long ago before the world began, there was a Great Light in the heavens. As the earth formed and people began to walk the earth each day they saw a Great Light in the heavens. One day while the American people were walking they stared to wonder What does this Great Light do for us? We have no need for it. The bravest and the strongest of the group was Samen, he told the others that he would go and talk with the gods to see why they needed this Great Light in the heavens.
Upon arriving at the Mountain of the Gods, Samen began to be afraid of what the Gods would do to him for asking such a question, so he didn’t go. He stayed in the near by town with a few friends. When morning came Samen was woken by his friends, Jack and William. When he asked what the matter was they couldn’t answer him, for they we so astonished by what had happened. Samen raced outside to find the city in ashes, the only thing that stood and that was not burnt was Jack’s house in which Samen had slept in that night and he was going to stay another night but after seeing that he wanted to leave as quick as he could. William would not let him go, he said to Samen,
“ Samen, you must journey to the Mountain of the Gods and see what has angered them so, for you are the bravest of us all and you have the most strength you must go. Not only to save yourself but to save the other cities”
“ I know that I must continue my journey to the mountain but I’m not sure how to tell the gods that there is just a ball of fire in the sky that we don’t need, and I know that for the sake of the surrounding cities that I need to go but won’t you come with me William? Jack will you not come with me one more day to take our journey to the Mountain of the Gods?” Samen answered William.
“No I will not leave my family for another night following a man who has nothing to lose, who could have already made the journey by himself but had to stop so many times, I’m sorry that I can’t make the journey with you Samen, I really am but I just can’t leave Sarabe like that again.”
Samen set out on his journey by himself, not wanting his friends to leave him, but if that is the way it must be it must have to be that way, when he reached the steps to enter the Mountain of the Gods, the earth began to shake and it felt as the earth would have fallen out from under him, he began to run back down the stairs but was caught by a large hand, bringing him back up the stairs, he yelled for help many times.
“Samen,” the voice said “why do you run from the presence of the Gods? Didn’t you except the challenge to come and find the reason behind the Great Light in the heavens? Wasn’t you that said I will go to the Mountain of the Gods? But now why do you run from the sight of the Gods? Are you scared? Samen, we the Gods created you, and when you come and see us and ask about the Great Light in the heavens or questions that only us Gods would know, it makes us glad to know that you will come and see us, it makes us grateful that we have created humans. Samen tell me why you were running was it just out of fear, or hatred? Samen you must have a reason for coming to the Mountain of the Gods other than to ask about the Great Light in the heavens, you do don’t you?”
Samen was over come with so much fear he had forgotten that he had another question to ask when he reached the Mountain of the Gods, but when it came to him he was so afraid of what the Gods might say.
“ I have come to ask about the Great Light in the heavens that is true but I also have come to ask why the night time is so dark, there is no light in our homes and sometimes you can’t see where you are going and if you travel, you want to be there or home before dark for you cannot see. We need light during the night time, some kind of light that can help us see but it can’t be as bright as the Great Light, but we need some light on some nights it is so dark, you cannot see anything. “
When the Gods told Samen that his journey was just to tell the Gods what they already knew, he felt very sad and torn apart in side, he left for home but when he got home, he understood what he need to do, he need to shoot arrows at the Great Light in the heavens and cause many to fall and if he got a big enough piece to fall off that it would stay just right there, right by the Great Light and follow it and still have some light but not as much as the Great Light did. So Samen gathered many friends and neighbors to help him and they all fired their arrows, shoot as long as they could, after many hours of shooting they heard a loud CRACK! And then a POP! And a BOOM! When they looked toward the Great Light a piece had broken off and all the smaller pieces came with and when night came there was light but not so great as the Great Light, but you could see in the night and the small pieces that had broken off from the Great Light were scattered in the night sky, making small pieces of light, making the night sky something you would want to look at. And that is how stars came to be. So when you see a shooting star always remember that Samen shoot the Great Light and gave us stars in the night sky.
-Katelyn Nicholson
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