Introduction
Introduction
At that time there lived on earth a man named Mundilfari. Mundilfari had two children so bright and handsome that he thought nothing in creation could compare with them except the Sun and the Moon. Proudly he called the boy Mani (Moon) and the girl Sun (Sol). When the Gods heard about this they took offence. Vainglory of this kind was too much for them to bear and they snatched the children away from their father and put them to work in the heavens. It is these children we see as bright lights in the sky.
They made the girl he named Sol ride like a jockey on one of the horses pulling the chariot of the Sun. Sol's brother had to ride one of the horses of the Moon, called Alsvider. But because his journeys were much more complicated than because the Moon he was set to a guide of waxes and wanes each month so that it is never quite the same for two days in a row. Mani could not manage this himself and he in his turn kidnapped two other children from earth. On a clear night of the full Moon they are both visible: people on earth call them the children in the Moon and it is they who make the Moon wax and wane.
From the earth both the son and the Moon can be seen racing across the sky. They have a reason for losing no time in their journey: they are both being pursued by wolves.
The prophecies say that in the end the wolves will overtake Mani and Sol and swallow them up completely.
~Norse Myth~
