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Setting out with oranges and millet

Truku Sun Shooting

Mission

Legend has it that the world began with two suns taking turns

hanging in the sky. There was no night, but day. The burning suns
and dried rivers made it hard for crops to grow and people to live.

When the Truku people gathered together to discuss what to do,
someone suggested shooting down one of the suns. Several brave

men volunteered to go. In case the long journey would take them
as long as 100 years and they would not be able to complete the

mission in their lifetime, the volunteers set off with not only a lot of
food, but also their sons and babies to finish what they started.

For the long journey, they prepared many oranges and
bamboo tube earrings filled with millet seeds. They carried oranges

so that they could sow the seeds along the way and follow the
trees, which can live for 100 years, to find their way home after

completing the mission. They carried the millet seeds so that they
could sow the seeds along the way and feed themselves by hunting

and harvesting the millet after eating up the food they carried. It
was also for teaching the younger ones how to grow and harvest

millet.
The group walked day after day, year after year until they
reached where the suns rose. By that time, the babies have grown

into strong and brave men, while their elders have died of age one

after another. Together, they shot down one of the suns, which
fell into pieces, with the largest one turning into the moon, and
smaller ones into stars, stones and sands. With only one sun in

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