The Beauty of Dusk
Lucelia, as Goddess of Dusk, only had one job. Each evening she was to bring the sun down, and the moon up, but that was all she did. Natsukan was the God of dreams, in which he created all imaginations wicked and beautiful. Every being that existed was overtook by these dreams each night.
Every evening when Lucelia would return to the Heavens from her duty, she would pass Natsukan- on his way to fulfilling his own. He, deep in thought, would never notice her. Yet she yearned for his admiration more than any thing else, as she admired him. Saddened, she would return to her home where she confided her sorrows in the Goddess of the Rainbow, Levina.
She told of her troubles, saying, "Natsukan is so magnificent. Each night he creates beautiful dreams and sends them to the minds of mortals below. If only I could make something equally as glorious, so that I may be worthy of his affections."
Lucelia sighed and Levina replied, "Then create something of the value of which you speak, and receive his notice."
"I cannot," said Lucelia, "for I have control only over the setting of the sun, and the rising of the moon. I am caught between the two shades of the day, with no power to make anything of worth by his standards."
"Then," said Levina, "make the time that you do have beautiful."
"But what is beautiful about the day turning to night, covering our father the Sun, but Natsukun as he rides on the magic of dreams. And I cannot copy him, for one cannot re-create that which has limitless beauty. I am not like you, who has the capacity to do such things that give people hope- which arches across the sky in the colors of the earth."
Again she sighed. For a moment Levina stood beside her, as if deep in thought. Then she gained an idea in loo of Lucelia's previous words.
"Meet me at the horizon when the sun sets and the moon rises, and I shall enable you to use my powers to put a rainbow in the sky. One of equal in both dark and light. Surely Natsukan cannot miss a thing as wondrous as a rainbow at dusk."
Finally seeing a bright side, Lucelia agreed and headed to her normal place at the time which they had discussed. Her hopes raised at the thought of being noticed by her heart's desire.
Meanwhile, Levina went to the wind god, Wendelium, and requested return to a favor she owed her. She told of the current situation, and of how she, as a messenger of the daytime, could not go to Lucelia at evening time. She handed Wendelium her paintbrush, with which she created the rainbow. Wendelium took it in her hand, and blew it toward the west.
When Lucelia received the brush as she waited on the horizon, she gratefully began to paint across the sky as the moon and sun crossed paths. She favored the colors of her father sun- red, pink, orange, and yellow. The sight was truly glorious to behold. And as she returned to the heavens that night, she passed Natsukan. But instead of indifference, he saw the last glimpses of the sunset, and proclaimed them the most beautiful he had ever seen.