The story of the sun and the moon begins long ago with a mother and her two children. The woman had a daughter and a son, and they all lived happily in a small town in the mountains. Each day, the mother would go to work to earn money.
One fateful day, the mother was asked to decorate for a child’s birthday party. Before leaving home, she told her kids to take care of the house and remain good kids. She also promised to reward them with pancakes and some delicious rice cakes if they behaved well.
After listening to their mother’s instructions, the children were excited and they made a promise to their mother that they would look after the whole house in her absence. While their mother was out, the children clean the house, wiped the floors and put things back to where they belonged.
After they were done cleaning, the children were waiting for their mom to bring what she promised them. Soon, everywhere was dark and still the mother isn’t back home. The mother was also worried about her children because they were all alone at home.
To get to her children, the mother left the birthday party early and she was going home. While the mother was going to her house, a shadow approached her. This frightened the mother and she asked who was there.
Then the woman heard the voice of a tiger and he threatened her to give him the rice cakes she was holding. Terrified, the woman gave the rice cakes to the tiger and he went to the jungle. However, the rice cakes were so delicious that the tiger wanted more.
The tiger was greedy and he was asking the woman for more rice cakes. Once all the rice cakes were finished, the tiger killed the mother and ate her too. Still, the tiger wanted more food and so he came up with a sinister idea.
The tiger took the mother’s clothes, wore it, and went to the woman’s house. When the tiger arrived at the woman’s house, the children ran to the door. They thought it was their mother and that she had returned with the pancakes as promised.
The children rushed to the door, shocked to see a tiger wearing their mother’s clothes. The tiger was scary and he had sharp teeth. This scared the children and they went to hide in a room while hugging each other.
While the children ran to a room to hide, the tiger followed them and he opened the door with its might. The tiger was much stronger than them. The children immediately ran out of the room and ran to the backyard.
The tiger was looking for the children and he saw them where they were sitting on the tree. The tiger asked the children how they were able to climb up the tree. To deceive the tiger, the clever boy told the tiger that they used sesame oil to climb the tree.
The dumb tiger put the sesame oil in his hands and the tried to meet the children in the tree, however he slipped each time he tried. The children laughed at him and the girl told him that he should has used an axe instead.
The tiger heard this and he decided to get an axe to cut down the tree. When the tiger almost reached the children. The children started praying to God to save them and sent a thick rope to save them. Immediately, a thick rope came down from the sky and soon the tiger fell down and died. The children went to the sky and God blessed them. The girl became the moon and the boy became the sun. This concludes the story of the sun and the moon.