One day long ago, before most people can remember, Celestial Golden-Orb, our beloved Sun, caught the horizon on fire. As it happened he was gazing at Moon Princess, who happens to be a most wondrous and heavenly beauty. She was splashing around in her silver pool, bathing, and making jokes with her hand-maidens, and being utterly delightful as usual. She has such a sweet and clever personality, and such elegant manners! So ardently was the Sun enraptured by her, that a ray of light escaped from his eye and ignited a world-spanning blaze along the entire western horizon! So terrible was the blaze that the whole sky was lit up with a fiery red light. This event caused the ancient Sky Lords to protest.
"Why have you done this terrible thing!?" they demanded, having hauled the Sun before the Judgement Seat of the Emperor in the Heavenly Court of the Universe. Everyone glared at the Sun, waiting for his answer.
"Well, I couldn't help myself from staring," replied the Sun sheepishly. "She is very pretty, you know, and I kept thinking that perhaps she had taken a shine to me."
The Ministers, Counselors and High Muckity-Mucks all hung their heads in dismay.
The Emperor, however, being very wise, ruled in the Sun's favor, saying that such accidents are to be expected on occasion because, as he said, "the world in not perfect, nor are the things in it, nor even the Celestials who rule over it."
"Only Love is perfect", quoth the Holy Emperor, "and Love takes into account all things."
In the end the fire was put out by the Sky Lords who, by Imperial Decree, peed on it for forty days and nights, and so, fortunately, the earth was restored and made good as new.
So that the Sun would never forget and do so again the Great Holy Emperor of the Universe decreed that whenever the Sun should become enraptured by any beautiful Princess, he must paint a portrait of his feeling for her, which today we call 'The Sunset Sky', and 'The Dawn Sky'. And so long as there are beautiful princesses in the world, so it shall be from now until Eternity.
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