Sun and moon
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- One cloudy day, when the Sun was home, the Moon had to go to the river for water. She crooned the children and called to her husband.
- Dear husband, I am going to fetch water. Watch over the children, but do not go near them because you know what will happen if you do.
- And after the warning she left.
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- The Sun looked lovingly at his children. He had never been able to really now them or even get near them. Overcome with love and affection, he kissed them.
- His anguish was great. He moaned and cried. Suddenly he remembered what her wife had told not to touch the children! Not knowing what to do, he hid in the forest.
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- Her screams and lamentations reached her husband in the forest, and his pity overcoming his fear, he went home. However, as soon as the Moon saw him, wailing became louder.
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- Ai! I am nothing, nothing at all! Then my children are nothing too!
- Horrified and enraged, the sun seized the gabi leaves and threw them in his wife's face and dashed out of the house
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- When he returned very late that night, his ill temper was gone. He regretted having shouted at his wife. He found the house dark and empty His wife had fled, but pinpoints of glimmering light in the distance told him where she was, for he knew the lights were his children following their mother in her flight.
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- The Moon is forever with her children, the many tiny lights we call the stars. Now and then a shooting star breaks across the path of the Moon. It is nothing more than an attempt from her husband to make her and their two children return to him. But the Moon speeds away faster, sometimes leaving the sky altogether, with only her star-babies there. This happens when the marks of the gabi leaves on the Moon's face swell, and she remembers the pain and humiliation of her husband's anger when he threw the gabi leaves to her face and called her mang-gad and binotong.
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- Mang-gad! Did you say I disobeyed you? How dare you think that you are superior to me , that you can order me what to do. Mang-gad! slave! How dare you say that I disobeyed you!
- My husband, why did you do it? Did I not tell you never touch or even draw near our children?
- I couldn't help kissing them, O wife; they looked so sweet. I have never seen anything so sweet before. Forgive me, O Moon! forgive me.
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