Why do your people have seasons?

Here's a painting dog in Brooklyn:

http://www.tillamookcheddar.com/

I'm fairly certain I've met this dog and owner -- I think they are friends with someone I know.

Light pollution is a problem, but trees aren't, unless you're right under one :) The northern lights are most visible in the north, but when they are visisble they flicker quite high up on the sky. Beautiful :) Awe-inspiring! (Oh, and don't wave to them).

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Originally Posted by channlluv

Alexis, thank you so much. This is excellent. I'm looking up phrases like "indigenous weather folktales" but I'm not getting results like this. Is this from one of those areas where it never really gets cold? There's a rainy season and a dry season? Thank you!

Roxy

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Roxy,

yep. Hereabouts, we get, well, hot and somewhat dry or hot and wet. The monsoon rains come twice a year. I'm not quite sure where it originated from but the line about the clearing of the waterways with a "changkol" sort of gives it away that it might be from around Malaysia or Singapore because that's a Malay word that's been mished into a Chinese dialect song. That sort of language mixing is quite typical around here.

I'm totally digging the stuff everyone's sharing on this thread, folklore and mythology are one of my favorite things.

Oh in case this is of any interest:
Dragon King of the East Sea - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_...f_the_East_Sea

Dragons in Chinese mythology, their roles were mainly to do with weather so no surprise the dragon king features in a song about rain - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_dragon

Sorry about the links, I can't seem to get the link thingy to work here. :(

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Originally Posted by shootingstar

Ah, one day in life I would like to see the aurora bourealis. Some people have told me of their sightings... including dearie who saw them here in Alberta.

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Did you see them last night? Looks like you get them nicely in Alberta.
http://www.girlsandbicycles.ca/2011/...rn-lights.html

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Originally Posted by lph

Let me know if you want to know why the sea is salt, why there are earthquakes, or why the fox has a white tip to his tail, though :rolleyes:

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You going to add this to your Viking thread???

Pleeeaassseee. :)

:D Sure, will do.

The first tale that came to my mind is "Frau Holle". It's a Grimm's tale, I am not sure if you have it too.
In this tale, it snows because a woman called "Holle" (may be related to "Hel") shakes her bedding and the feathers she shakes out of it land on the earth as snow.

Other than that we have a lot of season related folklore, especially for the darker time of the year, but I can't think of stories WHY there are seasons.

Looking back on my southern California childhood, maybe the change in seasons was because Disneyland couldn't afford the big summertime fireworks display all year long. so it was necessary to have winter.

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Originally Posted by malkin

Looking back on my southern California childhood, maybe the change in seasons was because Disneyland couldn't afford the big summertime fireworks display all year long. so it was necessary to have winter.

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I was thinking that the seasons change elsewhere so that the tourist will come to Florida. Otherwise, the part time residents wouldn't know when to come.