In other cultures, the Northern Lights strongly associate with childbirth. The Estonians believed they were a magnificent carriage carrying celestial guests to a heavenly wedding. In China, the lights were the result of fire-breathing dragons, fighting high up in the atmosphere. The lights resulted from her chariot racing across the sky to alert her siblings of the coming dawn. They were the gods of the sun and the moon. The Greeks believed that Aurora was the sister of Helios and Selene. With the aurora viewable from many different places in the Northern Hemisphere, many different explanations have existed. When there is no rational explanation for something, myths and stories will inevitably step in to fill the gap. The aurora has been around for a lot longer than our scientific understanding of the phenomena.
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