Legend:

 Ancient peoples of Alaska, Canada, and Greenland believe that the Aurora is
the fire of torches lighting the way to heaven for the spirits of the dead. The
beautiful pink rays, which sometimes appear, are thought to be the color of
blood shed in the struggles between the spirits.
 In Japan, an entry in the ancient Nihon Shoki “Chronicles of Japan is an epical
monument of Japanese literature, a cycle of myths and historical legends
written in 720A.D.” is thought to refer to the aurora.
 In China many sketches resembling the aurora remain. The dark red aurora
was considered to be an omen of ill fortune.

In Roman Mythology
 Eos, Goddess of the dawn, was known as Aurora and was the sister of
Helios, the Sun. Every morning she would rise from her bed and drive
Helios into the sky. Four of her sons are the four winds (north, south, east,
and west). According to one myth, her tears cause the dew as she flies
across the sky weeping for one of her sons, who was killed by Achilles
during the Trojan war. Among the handsome young men whom she carried
off as lovers were Orion and Tithonus. Eos asked Zeus to give Tithonus
immortality but forgot to include ?everlasting youth? with her request.
In Greek Mythology
 She is Eos Goddess of the dawn, the daughter of the Hyperion and Theia
and the sister of Helios (sun) and Selene (moon). She was the mother of the
four winds: Boreas, Eurus, Zephyrus, and Notus; and also of Heosphorus
and the Stars. She was depicted as a goddess whose rosy fingers opened the
gates of heaven to the chariot of the Sun. Her legend consists almost
entirely of her intrigues. She first slept with Ares; this earned her the wrath
of Aphrodite who punished her by changing her into a nymph.