The Moon and the Stars

One day there was a tribe of aborigines and in that tribe there lived a family that contained a mum, a dad and two children. One day the two children went outside and started to throw some sticks in the air. They made a game of it and they played it every day. The aim of the game was to see who could throw the stick the highest. In a few days they told their mum and their dad about the game. The day after that when the dad was hunting he told one of his friends about the game.


This man also had children so he told them about it. The children liked it so they told their friend and soon the game was known all around the tribe. Children were playing it everywhere and even some of the adults were joining in. The game became so popular that the leader of the tribe decided to have a championship.

The leader said to spread the word about the championship. On the day almost everybody was at the championship. Even people from other tribes came along to watch. There were about 30 contestants. When it came to the 17th contestant he threw the stick so high that it got stuck in the sky. It broke into many pieces but they somehow joined back together again.

But when the pieces joined back together again there made the shape of a sphere. When it left the atmosphere it caught fire and started to grow. That night there was huge ball in the sky that lit up the world. A few months later people saw little balls in the sky that had broken off the big ball of wood. The big ball of wood was called the moon and the smaller pieces were called the stars.