The Creation of the Night
Once upon a time, there was only day and no night. The Big Cobra guarded the night at the bottom of the river. One day, the cobra’s daughter asked her husband if she could see the night. So the husband sent some warriors to the cobra’s house. When they got there, the cobra gave them a coconut and warned them not to open it. On the way back, the warriors heard strange noises coming from the coconut. Full of curiosity, they opened it, and they were plunged into darkness. The daughter said she would separate the day and night like strands of her hair. She pulled out a hair, the sky turned red and the night was born.