How the Moon and Stars Came to Be

Bukidnon (Mindanao)

ブキドノン(ミンダナオ)

One day in the times when the sky was close to the ground a spinster went out to pound rice. [113] Before she began her work, she took off the beads from around her neck and the comb from her hair, and hung them on the sky, which at that time looked like coral rock.

天が地に近かった時代のある日、一人の年配の独り身の女が米を搗きに出かけた。[113] 仕事を始める前に、首の玉と髪の櫛を外して、天に掛けた。天はそのころ珊瑚の岩のように見えていた。

Then she began working, and each time that she raised her pestle into the air it struck the sky. For some time she pounded the rice, and then she raised the pestle so high that it struck the sky very hard.

それから彼女は働き始め、そして杵を空へ持ち上げるたびに天に当たった。しばらく米を搗き、そしてそれから杵をあまりに高く持ち上げたので、天にたいそう強く当たった。

Immediately the sky began to rise, [114] and it went up so far that she lost her ornaments. Never did they come down, for the comb became the moon and the beads are the stars that are scattered about.

たちまち天は昇り始め、[114] そしてあまりに高く上がったので、彼女は飾りを失ってしまった。それは二度と下りてこなかった。櫛は月になり、そして玉は散らばっている星になったからである。