Dayrell, E., & Lent, B. (1968). Why
the sun and the moon live in the sky: An African folktale. Boston: Houghton
Mifflin.
So many times we may wonder how things happen and who
determines how things should be. Well, as a child, one may wonder things as, how
hot the sun is, or how far away is it? Or we can wonder, why can’t fish breathe
outside of the water? Or, what determines why they should live in the water? So
the sun and the moon had a friend who they always visited, but wondered why
this friend did not visit them. Have you ever wondered why the sun and the moon
live in the sky? Well, maybe if we ask the water, we can find out!
I don't know why this story reminded me of something that I used to believe when I was a child. I was born in México from the day I was born till I turned eight years old. The first house I lived in was huge, well I came to realize as an adult how tiny the house was but somehow I used to think it was a palace. Anyway, behind the house was a creek that I used to love going to because it was soothing to my soul. I used to love looking up at the moon at night time because I could only see bits and pieces of it because of the trees. I loved the moon. Well, when I was four, we moved to a two story house. Great! I thought, "Now I'm going to be closer to the moon. Well this fascination ended soon because as I looked up at the moon I noticed some sort of spots of different shapes and forms. Well somehow I started believing that monsters lived inside the moon and I became terrified of it, especially when there was a full moon. As I grew up I realized how silly I had been in believing that and soon forgot about my monster theory and became one with the moon again. As I read this book it reminded me of the theory that I came up with when I was little and somehow, because of the conversations between the moon and the sun and the water, I thought, so what if those shapes and weird forms I saw in the moon had been the sun and the water visiting? Crazy, huh? :)
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