Afterward the gods piled up firewood, made a bonfire, and called to them. The Small Syphilitic God ran up and threw himself into the flames. He immediately emerged, incandescent, in the sky. The Lord of the Shells looked at the bonfire with a frown, moved forward, backward, hesitated, made a couple of turns. As he could not decide, they had to push him. After a long delay he rose into the sky. The gods were furious and beat him about the face with a rabbit, again and again, until they extinguished his glow. Thus, the arrogant Lord of the Shells became the moon. The stains on the moon are the
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