This legend tells us about the origin of the moon. There was this native, named Manduka, who fell in love with his sister. Every night he went to bed with her, but neither showed his face, nor talked, so as not to be identified. His sister, in an attempt to discover who he was, painted Manduka's face with genipap pigment (fruit - American genipap). He washed his face, but the pigment traces did not disappear. Thus, she knew who he was. Besides ashamed, she got very mad and cried a lot. Manduka was also very ashamed, since everybody knew what he had done. Then, Manduka climbed a tree up to the sky. But he went down to tell the Jurunas (indigenous tribe) that he would go back to the tree and never come back. He took an agouti ["cutia"] (a rabbit-like rodent mammal - Dasyprocta azarae) with him, so as not to feel alone. And Manduka turned to be the moon. That is why the moon shows dark shades, because of the genipap the sister had painted Manduka with. Right in the middle of the moon, there appears an agouti, gnawing a coconut. That is the other spot imprinted on the moon.
