Quarrels

 Once upon a time the moon had many, many brothers. They were stars.. One day all the stars got into a fight. In vain, the moon tried to stop their quarrel. Bits and pieces of the stars flew everywhere and made huge marks on the moon's face. She cried and pleaded with the stars but, they were so caught up in their quarrel they barely noticed her. But finally she got their attention. Bruised and bleeding she collapsed. When they brought her to her senses, they begged her for something that they could do to make it right. She wanted other lifeforms to exist, so she told them so. The eldest and wisest of the stars told the rest to gather the bits and pieces of themselves and the moon. Once this was done, he chose several planets and threw the star chunks onto them. Soon they sprouted. Some fruits from particular trees fell into some cracks in the ground. The fruits burst and water rushed. These became water bodies. Larger pieces were mountains, and the gravel like powder and rock bits became soil. Then the moon positioned the stars themselves far away from each other. Next the moon pieces became moons. This is our world now.