Olapa
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Olapa, Goddess of the moon, is married to Enkai, God of the sun. They fought one day, and Olapa, being a short tempered woman, inflicted Enkai with a wound. To cover up his wound he took to shining so bright, that no one could look straight at him and see his shame. In revenge Enkai hit Olapa back and struck out one of her eyes. This can be seen today, when the moon is full.
The word for moon and month (olapa) carries the masculine gender form 'ol' in the prefix.
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- Naomi Kipury: Oral Literature of the Maasai (1983: East African Educational Publishers Ltd., PO Box 45314 Nairobi, Kenya)
- The myth of the sun and the moon