Several  days passed and the king called Mamad once again. There was a big  crowd for the king was about to go hunting. The king held his horse by  the mane, his left foot was already on the stirrup. He ordered Mamad "Go to my summer palace and tell the queen I will be with her for  lunch. Tell her to prepare a big feast. You will have lunch with me  then."

Mamad  bowed down and went to the queen. Then the king laughed and said "We won't go hunting and now Mamad will lie to the queen. Tomorrow we  will laugh on his behalf."

Mamad went to the queen, but when he got there he did not tell the queen that the king would be there. instead he told her "Maybe you should prepare a big feast for lunch tomorrow, and maybe  you shouldn't. Maybe the king will come by noon, and maybe he won't."

"Tell me will he come, or won't he?" - asked the queen.

"I don't know weather he put  his right foot on the stirrup, or he put  his left foot on the ground after I left."

Everybody  waited for the king. He came the next day and said to the queen "The wise Mamad, who never lies, lied to you yesterday."

But  the queen told him about the words of Mamad. And the king realized,  that the wise man never lies, and says only that, which he saw with  his own eyes.

The thunder was an old mother sheep, and the lightning was her son, a  ram. Whenever the ram got angry he used to go about and burn houses  and knock down trees; he even did damage on the farms, and sometimes  killed people. Whenever the lightning did these things, his mother  used to call out to him in a very loud voice to stop and not to do any  more damage; but the lightning did not care in the least for what his  mother said, and when he was in a bad temper used to do a very large  amount of damage. At last the people could not stand it any longer,  and complained to the king.

So the king made a special order that the sheep (Thunder) and her son,  the ram (Lightning), should leave the town and live in the far bush.  This did not do much good, as when the ram got angry he still burnt  the forest, and the flames sometimes spread to the farms and consumed  them.

So the people complained again, and the king banished both the  lightning and the thunder from the earth and made them live in the  sky, where they could not cause so much destruction. Ever since, when  the lightning is angry, he commits damage as before, but you can hear  his mother, the thunder, rebuking him and telling him to stop.  Sometimes, however, when the mother has gone away some distance from  her naughty son, you can still see that he is angry and is doing  damage, but his mother's voice cannot be heard.

He then said, "If you wish me to visit you, you must build a very  large compound; but I warn you that it will have to be a tremendous  place, as my people are very numerous, and take up a lot of room."

The sun promised to build a very big compound, and soon afterwards he  returned home to his wife, the moon, who greeted him with a broad  smile when he opened the door. The sun told the moon what he had  promised the water, and the next day commenced building a huge  compound in which to entertain his friend.

When it was completed, he asked the water to come and visit him the  next day.

When the water arrived, he called out to the sun, and asked him  whether it would be safe for him to enter, and the sun answered,  "Yes, come in, my friend."

The water then began to flow in, accompanied by the fish and all the  water animals.

Very soon the water was knee-deep, so he asked the sun if it was still  safe, and the sun again said, "Yes," so more water came in.

When the water was level with the top of a man's head, the water said  to the sun, "Do you want more of my people to come?" and the sun and  moon both answered, "Yes," not knowing any better, so the water flowed  on, until the sun and moon had to perch themselves on the top of the  roof.

Again the water addressed the sun, but receiving the same answer, and  more of his people rushing in, the water very soon overflowed the top  of the roof, and the sun and moon were forced to go up into the sky,  where they have remained ever since.