In the beginning there was no death. This is the story of how death came into the world.

There was once a man known as Leeyio who was the first man that Naiteru-kop (the beginner of the earth) brought to earth. Naiteru-Kop then called Leeyio and said to him: "When a man dies and you dispose of the corpse, you must remember to say, 'man die and come back again, moon die, and remain away'."

Many months elapsed before anyone died. When, in the end, a neighbour's child did die, Leeyio was summoned to dispose of the body. When he took the corpse outside, he made a mistake and said:

"Moon die and come back again, man die and stay away." So after that no man survived death.

A few more months elapsed, and Leeyio's own child went missing. So the father took the corpse outside and said: "Moon die and remain away, man die and come back again." On hearing this, Naiteru-kop said to Leeyio: "You are too late now for, through your own mistake, death was born the day when your neighbour's child died." So that is how death came about, and that is why up to this day when a man dies he does not return, but when the moon dies, it always comes back again.