When the world was very young, the Earth and the Sky were only 10 feet away from each other. Although people did not have any of the modern conveniences, they lived a very comfortable life. Gold, diamonds, abundant food, they had nothing to ask for. All they did was plant rice, barley, wheat, fruits,and vegetables. They raised cattle for milk and cheese; pigs,goats, chickens to lay eggs and pound the rice with mortar and pestle. One day , while the woman was boiling water in the pot to cook rice, the man pound the rice to remove hulls. While he was pounding rice in the mortar, the pestle kept hitting the sky thus limiting his pounding the pestle up and down. He got so frustrated that he shouted at the sky so loud. ” I wish you are so high that my pestle may never reach you.” As he continued poundingand the pestle kept hitting the sky, the sky went higher, higher, higher! and as the sky went higher, the woman’s diamond comb, the pot of water, the fire, the goats, cattles, pigs, chickens, the dipper, mortar and pestle, even their dog went up with the sky. The man and woman were horrified while watching what happened. Nothing was left to them except the bare earth.( Note: ) Children were used to believe that what we see up in the sky were: stars ( the diamonds from the woman’s comb); moon ( the pot); the sun ( fire); the clouds ( bubbles from the boiling water); the constellations ( all the animals ) that went up with the sky.