From Gondi Folklore
After Mahapurub (Bhagavan, or the Great God) had finished making the earth, he made two mirrors, one for himself and one for his wife. They looked in the mirrors and saw the whole world: it appeared like fire. Mahapurub thought and he gave life to the mirrors so that they could go about of their own accord. He married his own male-mirror to his wife’s female-mirror, making his male-mirror the Sun and his wife the Moon.
These two had many children. The Sun’s children were like him; the Moon’s took after her. As they grew up, their heat was so great that the grass withered and the rocks cracked and men died everywhere. Mahapurub thought, ‘What shall I do? All living things are dying and there will be too many in the Upper Word.’ He dug a pit and pushed the Moon into it and covered her with earth. Mahapurub also hid in the pit.
The Sun went searching for his wife and came to the pit. He called to the Moon, ‘Come out.’ But the Moon’s mouth was full of earth and Mahapurub, taking the Moon’s voice, replied, ‘Your children and my children are giving me a lot of trouble: let us both devour our children.’
‘Very well,’ said the Sun, and Mahapurub let the Moon out of the pit. They began to devour their children. The Sun ate all his, but the Moon stuffed hers into her cheeks like a monkey. Then Mahapurub appeared. ‘What is going on here?’ he asked. They told him and he said, ‘You are very foolish: bring your children out of your bellies.’ The Sun tried and tried but could not bring out a single child, but the Moon at once brought out hers. Mahapurub was again anxious. ‘Now there will be many children and more trouble. I must stop these two ever coming together again.’ So he gave them separate kingdoms and after that each wandered in their own dominion.
For fifteen days Sun and Moon live apart; for fifteen days they are together. But all the time they are together the Moon is in her period and looks defiled and ugly. So the Sun never approaches her and goes off quickly to his own work. But sometimes he searches for his wife and then the Moon hides in the clouds.
Source:
Chapter 2, Myths of Middle India, Verrier Elwin, 1949
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