Why Roosters crow in the morning

    

            Gaea, the Goddess of Nature, would sit every morning and watch her daughter Mirandah, the Goddess of Mornings, perform some of the most beautiful magic, creating the morning dew, and placing it on each blade of grass and flower in the field until it was perfected.  She would work diligently from midnight till noon, creating the perfection, moon beams, sun’s rays and the smell of fresh morning air.

 

            One afternoon, Mirandah came to her Mother looking very sad.

 

            “What is wrong my child?” asked Gaea.

 

            “Why do I work so very hard Mother?  If the people sleep so late and miss all the beautiful magic I have created?  The only ones who see it are the animals.”

 

            “Well my child, why don’t we try rising the sun earlier, that I’m sure will wake the people to see the beauty that you have created.”

 

            “All right Mother, let’s try it,” Smiled Mirandah.

 

            With that, Mirandah slept, beautiful dreams danced in her head, planning every detail for the people to see in the early morning when they woke.

 

            The next few days she performed some of the most beautiful scenes even Gaea had ever seen.

 

            Unfortunately, the people still slept.

 

            Mirandah was very hurt by this, so she thought and she thought.

 

            One week later she approached her Mother again.

 

            “Mother, I have an idea.” She said, trying to control her enthusiasm, “and this plan might just work!”

 

            “Yes my child, please tell me,” answered Gaea.

 

            “Light will not wake the people, but sound might.”  Mirandah went on the explain, “Most of the animals are very busy early in the morning, with the exception of one, while the hens are laying the breakfast eggs, the roosters have nothing to do, and they are as colorful and beautiful as my mornings.  What would you say if the roosters were to crow a good morning to all the people?  Their voices are very loud and carry for miles.”

 

           

    

Gaea thinks on this for awhile, and seeing the excitement on her daughters face, “All right, let’s try it my child,” she smiles.

 

            That night Mirandah visited every rooster and asked them to please help her with this task.

 

            The roosters all agreed, after all this was an important job for them.

 

            Between getting the morning ready, and visiting all the roosters, Mirandah was very tired.

 

            She sat with Gaea and they waited, at 5:00, she sent the agreed upon signal to all the roosters at once, and nervously waited.

 

            The roosters stood proudly upon the fences, and began to crow, the signal you see, was the sun beginning to make its long journey up into the sky.

 

            Bedroom lights started to come on, and the people were up and looking out their windows, some even standing outside.

 

            They came out and saw the magical beauty of Mirandah’s work, and they smiled.

 

            Thus started the tradition of roosters crowing in the morning.

 

                                                            Angela Peacock

 

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