How does the Waxing and Waning Moon come about?
” After the Mani goddess Yah Ngoh had given birth to the father and mother of every creature, she still had worries about the happiness on earth of her children. Thus, every night, Yah Ngoh observes human beings, animals and plants on earth everywhere. The full moon we see is the Mani Goddess looking straight at us. After looking at us, she gradually turns towards other directions as we see when the moon becomes a crescent. The new moon is when Yah Ngoh turns her back towards us and looks in the opposite direction. She then turns slowly towards us again and so the cycle goes on (reported by Mr. Sung: BE 2534 / AD 1991). Story no. 3 “Where does the Rainbow come from?” Yah Ngoh’s favourite animal is Hung, the rainbow. It resembles a snake, has a green back and a red stomach and it is very big indeed. No one has ever seen its face. Yah Ngoh has given Hung the responsibility of helping her bees find their food and so it gathers the bees and takes them to the forest in search of food, espec
