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 Hae-nim across the sky on orders from the king of the dark kingdom, and each time one clamps its jaws around the sun the searing heat forces it to let go — the brief moment of capture is what mortals see as a solar eclipse.
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