Horangi devoured the siblings' mother, donned her clothes, and pursued Dal-nim and Hae-nim up a tree before falling to its death from a rotten rope sent by heaven.
When two suns scorched the earth and two moons froze the nights, Cheonjiwang shot down one Hae-nim and one Dal-nim to make the world bearable for living things.
When the tiger cornered them in the tree, Dal-nim and Hae-nim prayed to heaven, and a golden rope descended from Cheonsang to lift them to safety among the celestial bodies.
The Bulgae hunt Dal-nim across the night sky, and each time one clamps its jaws around the moon the bitter cold forces it to let go — the brief moment of capture is what mortals see as a lunar eclipse.
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