The rabbit of the moon. Mexican stories for children

In Guiainfantil.com you can read the Mexican story of the rabbit of the moon, a beautiful ancient legend that tells why some of the craters of the moon are rabbit shaped. Quetzalcoatl, the great and good God, went to travel through the world transformed into a man. As he had walked all day, at the e

In Guiainfantil.com you can read the Mexican story of the rabbit of the moon, a beautiful ancient legend that tells why some of the craters of the moon are rabbit shaped.

Quetzalcoatl, the great and good God, went to travel through the world transformed into a man. As he had walked all day, at the end of the afternoon he felt tired and hungry. Even so he kept walking and walking, until the stars began to shine and the moon peeked out of the window of heaven.

Short Mexican legends to read the children

Then he sat by the side of the road, and was there resting, when he saw a bunny who had gone out to dinner.

-What are you eating? - he asked.

-I'm eating grass. Do you want some?

-Thanks, but I do not eat grass.

-What are you going to do then?

-Morning maybe of hunger and thirst.

The bunny approached Quetzalcoatl and told him; "Look, I'm just a bunny, but if you're hungry, eat me, I'm here.

Then the god caressed the bunny and said:

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You will not be more than a bunny, but everyone, forever, has to remember you.And he raised it high, very high, to the moon, where the figure of the rabbit was stamped. Then the god lowered him to the earth and said to him: - There you have your portrait in light, for all men and for all times.