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Now Small Turtle made Sun out of lightning when she climbed up into
the sky. She also made Moon for his wife. Moon was smaller than Sun,
but she was very bright. Then the animals bored a hole through the
edge of the earth so that Sun and Moon could pass through at night,
and begin their trail again at the east.
Small Turtle never meant Sun and Moon to travel together. But one
day Moon ran into the hole at the edge of the earth much too soon.
She also ran in ahead of her husband, Sun. Sun was very angry. Moon
stayed under the earth for a long while. Small Turtle went after her
one day to see what was the matter. She found Moon small and pale
because of Sun’s anger. Then Small Turtle tried to make her large
again. Moon would grow larger for a while, and then remember Sun’s
anger, and fade away again, until she was only a strip. She does so
even today. That is why Moon is so pale, and why she keeps changing
as she does.