The Formation of the Grand Canyon
Once upon a time there was a quiet little village where there lived an old farmer and his wife. They had a child that grew up and had three children, two boys and a girl. One day their grandchildren came by for a visit while their mother went to the marketplace. They begged their grandparents to tell them a story, since they were pretty old they got two stories mixed up. They started to tell of "Jack and the Bean Stalk" and "Horus the Greek God of the Skies". The story goes something like this:
Jerry the giant loves to play around. He lives in the sky so to get around he has to hop from cloud to cloud so that he can travel from place to place. He often goes to visit his friend Horus the sky god. Horus was a very cheerful and good-hearted person, but if you make him angry he can hold a grudge forever. Jerry went to go visit Horus and today was April Fools Day, so Jerry was going to play a little joke on Horus. He was planning on telling Horus that the gods were angry with him and they were planning on punishing him very severly.
"Hi Horus, how are you?" said Jerry.
Horus replied with a warm welcome and began to finish his work. Jerry pulled out a long white piece of paper from his pocket and started to read out loud.
Jerry reads "Horus....you have upset the gods and you will be severly punished for your actions...you must face the consequences."
Horus turned around with a shocking look on his face and grabbed the paper from Jerry's hand. He examined it and said "it looks real...ohhhh no! what have I done to make the gods so angry at me?"
Horus went crazy and tried to please the gods in every way he could. Everyone thought that he had went crazy.
Jerry approached Horus.....
"I have a confession to make.." Jerry said to Horus. Horus looking confused "What you mean by that?"
"I lied about the whole thing with the gods and stuff it was a little april fools joke" Jerry confessed.
"WHAT!!!!...you mean I was worried about nothing!!! I should kill you!" Horus screamed at the top of his lungs.
Horus started to chase after Jerry, but Jerry began to run. Horus lost him and decided to go back home. In the morning Horus was awaken by the sound of laughter, it was Jerry he was playing around and hopping from cloud to cloud.
Since Horus was the sky god he thought he would play a little joke of his own.
"lets see how he likes a taste of his own medicine" snickered Horus.
When Jerry was going to hop to the next cloud Horus moved it so that Jerry went falling. Down and down he went, until he finally fell into the floor.
"OOOOOOOOOOOOOOuuuuuuuuuuuccccccccccccccccccccchhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh" Jerry yelled. When Horus flew down to see what the effects of his trick. He saw that Jerry was very hurt so he decided to ring the winds down to pick him up. When he did he saw that there was a deep and big whole in the ground.
Horus and Jerry heard mortal people coming so they had to go back home so that no one would see them. They saw the huge hole and called it the Grand Canyon.
This was the formation of the Grand Canyon!!