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door and think it's a tiger, so they escape through the back door and climb up onto a tree. When the tiger chased it, climbed up the tree, the tiger applied sesame oil on the rope and tried to climb it. The brother and sister prayed to the sky and climbed up on the iron rope sent down from the sky, then became the Sun and the Moon. The tiger follows the brother and sister and ascends to the sky on a rotten rope, but the rope breaks and it falls onto a sorghum stalk to his death. God made the older brother the Sun and the younger sister the Moon, but the younger sister said that she was afraid of the night, so they switched roles so that the older brother became the Moon and the younger sister the Sun. The sister emits a powerful light as she is shy to be stared at by people during the day.
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is also in this context. In Inuit mythology, a mysterious man visits a woman nightly, and the woman mixes her lamp soot with her oil and applies it to her nipples to reveal the man's identity. The next day, seeing his brother's lips black, his sister leaves the village in shame, and her brother
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