In the Beginning

                    At the start, there was naught made. All was in darkness, and the gods could not see. Then, the head of the gods, Paresani, decided she wanted to see. She made dirt, and took that into her hands and rubbed them together to make rocks. With each hand, she took a rock, and then she smashed her hands together. Out from the rocks came sparks, and Paresani guided the sparks together, and they came together, and rose into the sky. Thus was born the sun.
          The other gods, Paresani's wife Lamesani included, did not want the sun to be burning their eyes any longer. Though they could now see, it was too bright. Lamesani and her brother, Kamesona, petitioned Paresani to lessen the light of the heaven-spark. Paresani took this into her mind, and went off to think about it. While she was off, she noticed the sun shining through her silver robe, and its light was lessened, but more beautiful. She began her work.

          Meanwhile, the other gods, Kamesona primarily, became impatient.
          "Paresani does not want to lessen her creation! She has gone off to sleep! We must lessen it ourselves!"
          So Kamesona gathered three other gods: his wife, Farasani; his daughter Morosani; and his son, Gathesona. Together they climbed to the sun, determined to block its light.
          "Perhaps!" said Farasani, "I can cause water to block it!" She took the moisture of her body, and threw it into the air, and it became clouds. And it worked! The clouds blocked the sun. But it did not last long; as soon as the clouds came too near for the sun, they fell and became rain.
          Morosani then tried her hand at blocking the sun.
"Perhaps!" she exclaimed, "If I can cause something to go in front of the sun, it will be lessened!"
          Taking parings from her fingernails, she buried them in the newly wet ground. They immediately began springing up as every kind of plant, Pine and palm trees foremost among them. And these blocked the sun. And the gods rested under the leaves. But after a while, the leaves of the trees began to yellow, and fall. The pine needles fell and poked the gods in the skin and eyes.
          "Alas!" said Kamesoma, "We have tried to make things better, but have made them worse!"

          Meanwhile, Lamesani heard of the other gods' plot to lessen the sun. She ran to where Paresani was working to tell her. When Lamesani found her, Paresani stopped her.
          "Look!" she exclaimed. "Look what I have wrought!"
In her hands, she held a silver light, lesser than the sun, but more beautiful and more subtle.
          "But wife! Your brother and his family are trying to destroy the sun!"
          When she heard this, Paresani flew back to the gods in a fury.

          Meanwhile, the other gods had made a final attempt at blocking the sun. Gathesoma and his father had taken the dirt and made a large rock with it. Together, they threw it in the air, where it slowly circled, then came to rest in front off the sun. Suddenly, Paresani appeared. Infuriated, she caused the sun to fall from the sky, and in the darkness, she used her new light to capture the impatient gods. When at last she had captured them, she scolded them.
          "Do you know what you have done in your impatience? You have altered the Plan! Now you will all be punished accordingly."
But first, she took Kamesoma and Gathesona's rock ball and put her light into it.
          "I cannot undo what you have done, but I can incorporate it for the better!" And she threw it into the sky, where it became the moon.
          In the punishment, each god was punished according to his or her crime.
          Gathesoma was sentenced to rule the rocks and dirt. With this sentence, he dove into the rocks and shook them in anger.
          Farasani was sentenced to rule the sky and the clouds. When she heard this, she rose into the sky, and a storm came of her shame and anger.
          Morosani, though she had gone with the other gods to lessen the sun, had not actually committed a crime. Her punishment was a reduction in stature.
The last and greatest punishment was left for Kamesoma.
          "Kamesoma!" Paresani exclaimed, "You have tried to destroy my creation. As punishment, you will be the guard of the sun for eternity, to hold against all those who would harm the sun in the future."
          So Kamesoma flew up through Farasani's sky and stood near the sun, unable to do aught else.
Paresani then turned to her wife.
          "In reward for being patient, and warning me of their plans, I give you rulership of the moon. For though it has its base in earth, the light is more powerful. I shall myself rule the sun."
          And because the moon was part earth, Gathesoma also has control over it, and causes it to dim every cycle. But the light overpowers it, and Lamesani grows.