It may surprise some to learn that indigenous tribes on two sides of our planet preserve a legend that the Earth once had two suns, but that one of them was transformed into what we now call the Moon. Tolkien even preserved this idea in his fictional lore of Middle Earth in the song of Durin, the first dwarf who awoke, like Adam, and explored the world.
No Stain Yet on the Moon Was Seen
The Legend of Two Suns
