The silly looking moon is a myth Masciona (Zimbabwe) that wants to explain how the world originated, what functions are assigned to the stars and what the role of atmospheric agents. So this is a sacred oral story that is also useful to strengthen and unify the community. The myth reveals the primary function of describing how things went to the origin of life when the life of living beings spread from a primordial chaos.
Tramamodifies wikitesto The protagonist of the story is a silly fool who can not shake this label even in the eyes of his parents. One day the child asks the father to assign him a job that will allow the young man to prove that he has at least the will. His father responds ironically to going to take the Moon. The young fool goes to the moon and day in the direction of the Moon, stirring up hilarity during his passage and especially refusing a multitude of goods, such as goats, the most beautiful girl in the country, twenty slaves given to him by the king of a village. At the end of her vicissitudes, the young man manages to get in the neck of the moon and resumes, and during the trip he goes back to a village where the great king has just died. The elderly to congratulate the young man, whom they had laughed at the go, proclaim him king. Notemodify wikitesto Bibliografiamodifica wikitesto Voices correlateemodify wikitesto
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