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Since then, heaven and earth have split into two. The earth is flat like a square tray, the sky is round like an upside down bowl, where sky and earth meet is the horizon. When the sky was high and dry, the god of sky broke the pillar and threw the earth everywhere. Every stone that was thrown turned
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