To the stains on the moon - the concern of many civilizations - the Guarayo tribe gives it an adventurous origin. Delightful, full of grace, and tremendously mischievous. For the Guarayo, the moon is a man transformed into a star by a strange enchantment. Amorously, he leaves heaven periodically to spend the night on earth in the company of beautiful women. According to legend, a woman from the Guarayo tribe is responsible for the spots that attenuate the face of the moon.

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Die Legende besagt, dass dieses Guaraya einzigartig shcön war. No man of her tribe could boast that her flirtations were reciprocated. She despised everyone and remained loyal to a visitor who would arrive quietly at her hut late at night, hugging her, caressing her, sleeping with her, and abandoning her to return the next evening and repeat the sweet encounter.

The Guaraya remained full of love and in calm serenity. But when the day came, the reality of her loneliness showed her the absurdity of her attitude: lover of a man who only approached her at night. She thought she should only continue the adventure if she found out who the mysterious lover was. “I need to know who is with me every night,” she told herself, planning the ruse.   

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She prepared a mixture of ground charcoal and water, smeared her hands and waited for her lover, who soon arrived. The Guaraya caressed the man's face with her dirty hands. She exaggerated her displays of affection so much that he quietly asked her not to shower him with so many caresses. "It's so I can recognize you tomorrow," she replied.

The lover did not resist the words of a woman in love, and when the love meeting ended, he left the bed, and then the hut, and ascended to heaven. This time she followed the lover and discovered the return route he took. She saw him in the sky, shining in the tropical night, with his face stained by the charcoal of her hands. She smiled proudly and said, "So it was you? Well, I already know you." She returned to her bed to rest, happily in love with the moon.