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Monday, February 6, 2012

The story of the Sun and the Moon (A Gypsy folktale)

Once upon a time the sun and the moon were locked on the far side of the world. Seven headed dragons and monsters were guarding them.
Two courageous and strong men freed the heavenly bodies and then started to travel with them.
On the way the sun burnt the man carrying him making him black, the descendents of that man became the brown skinned people. While the man who was carrying the moon, his descendents became the white skinned people.
These men locked the sun and the moon in their homes so that only they can have their light. But the sky started to cry for its children, and that was the first rainfall in the world. The two men allowed the heavenly bodies to go away.
Since then they are in the sky.

Translated from Hungarian by me

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