.. A very detailed myth comes from the island of Nauru. In the beginning there was nothing but the sea, and above soared the Old-Spider. One day the Old-Spider found a giant clam, took it up, and tried to find if this object had any opening, but could find none. She tapped on it, and as it sounded hollow, she decided it was empty.

By repeating a charm, she opened the two shells and slipped inside. She could see nothing, because the sun and the moon did not then exist; and then, she could not stand up because there was not enough room in the shellfish. Constantly hunting about she at last found a snail. To endow it with power she placed it under her arm, lay down and slept for three days.

Then she let it free, and still hunting about she found another snail bigger than the first one, and treated it in the same way. Then she said to the first snail: 'Can you open this room a little, so that we can sit down?' The snail said it could, and opened the shell a little. Old-Spider then took the snail, placed it in the west of the shell, and made it into the moon. Then there was a little light, which allowed Old-Spider to see a big worm.

At her request he opened the shell a little wider, and from the body of the worm flowed a salted sweat which collected in the lower half-shell and became the sea. Then he raised the upper half-shell very high, and it became the sky. Rigi, the worm, exhausted by this great effort, then died. Old-Spider then made the sun from the second snail, and placed it beside the lower half-shell, which became the earth ...

The second snail which Old-Spider found became the sun and we then expect the sun to lift the shell roof even higher. But that is not what happens.

Instead, after Old-Spider has found also the sun snail - and after the moon has been placed in the west to give a little light - she finds the big worm Rigi and it is he who raises the sky roof.

Rigi dies exhausted by his great effort (similar to Kuukuu), though before that his salted sweat collects in the lower half of the shell and becomes the sea.

Only at this point does Old-Spider converts the second snail into the sun and locates it 'beside the lower half-shell, which became the earth'.

... The Katawihi distinguish two rainbows: Mawali in the west, and Tini in the east. Tini and Mawali were twin brothers who brought about the flood that inundated the whole world and killed all living people, except two young girls whom they saved to be their companions. It is not advisable to look either of them straight in the eye: to look at Mawali is to become flabby, lazy, and unlucky at hunting and fishing; to look at Tini makes a man so clumsy that he cannot go any distance without stumbling and lacerating his feet against all obstacles in his path, or pick up a sharp instrument without cutting himself ...

... The Mura also believed that there were two rainbows, an 'upper' and a 'lower' ... Similarly, the Tucuna differentiated between the eastern and the western rainbows and believed them both to be subaquatic demons, the masters of fish and potter's clay respectively ...

... the Indians of Guinana establish a direct link between potter's clay and diseases: 'The Indians firmly believe that it is only during the first night of commencing full moon that they dare carry on the work. ... Whole crowds congregate there on that particular evening and return home at day break with a big supply. The Indians are absolutely convinced that the pots made from clay obtained at any other time not only possess the defect of readily breaking but also bring a number of diseases to those who eat out of them ...

... In South America the rainbow has a double meaning. On the one hand, as elsewhere, it announces the end of rain; on the other hand, it is considered to be responsible for diseases and various natural disasters [dis-aster]. In its first capacity the rainbow effects a disjunction between the sky and the earth which previously were joined through the medium of rain. In the second capacity it replaces the normal beneficient conjunction by an abnormal, maleficient one - the one it brings about itself between sky and earth by taking the place of water ...

... The serpent (rainbow) is responsible for the dis-junction. The paradisical normal state of watery darkness uniting sky and earth is disrupted by light, letting in all sorts of 'maleficient' creatures. Like Tane the rainbow rips the sky and earth apart ...

... Marduk, the god of light, and vanquisher of Tiamat, i.e. the ocean, has for a symbol the Bull = Taurus, into which he entered in spring. This leads almost necessarily to the supposition that both the Bull and the Scorpion were located in the heavens at a time when the sun had its vernal equinox in Taurus and its autumnal equinox in Scorpio, and that in their principal parts or most conspicuous star groups; hence probably in the vicinity of Alderbaran and Antares, or at an epoch when the principal parts of Taurus and Scorpio appeared before the sun at the equinoxes.

If my suggestion be admitted that the Babylonians dealt not with the daily fight but the yearly fight between light and darkness - that is, the antithesis between day and night was expanded into the antithesis between the summer and the winter halves of the year - then it is clear that at the vernal equinox Scorpio setting in the west would be watching the sunrise; at the autumnal equinox rising in the east, it would be watching the sunset; one part would be visible in the sky, the other would be below the horizon in the celestial waters ...

Scorpio and moon both inhabit the west when sun appers in the east. Therefore they both are in opposition to the sun, i.e. they represent darkness.

Full moon in the west means sun in the east. Probably Ca1-26 has moon at left, earth in the middle and sun at right:

Furthermore, in Ba6-7 and Ba6-9 we maybe can see the sun in triplicate (right) with full moon at bottom left:

Ba6-7	Ba6-8	Ba6-9	Ba6-10
ka huri te hatu	e tagata huri	hatu	e tagata haga