Story of the boy who caught the sun in a loop

At the time when still the animals on earth hat the predominance they were very cruel against humans and killed them all with exception of a girl and a boy. This boy was a dwarf and growded daily in age, but never in power and height. That's why the girl had to all the work alone. When she went out she always took her  feeblish brother with her, so that during her absence no big bird dragged him off or any other disaster happened. One day she made him bow and arrow und told him that he should shoot the beautiful big birds that soon would come to pick up the worms that she threw out of the dry wood. He tried it but couldn't reach anything on the first day. The sister admonished him to try his luck the next day. So he shot a mighty bird und said to his sister: "Hear, I wish, that you pick up its skin, to produce a haughty dress for me, when I've several of them." "But what should I do with the meat?" she asked; because the people of that time didn't already eat meat but only banquetted vegetable diet and drank spicy bloom must.

"Mix it with our soup, I think it will make it more nourishing", meant the dwarf and she obeyed him. When he had shot twelve birds she made him a little skirt to his taste. "Sister", asked the dwarf one day, "are we absolutely lonely in the world?" The sister told him about some bad relatives, who lived in a distant area and warned him to go there. But he didn't care about and moved on. After going a while he became tired. layed down and fall asleep. But the sun shone so hot that she singed all the feathers of his skirt and burnt a big hole in it. When he woke up and saw the damage he became angry and swore to take revenge on the impertinent sun. Ferocious he hurried home, didn't eat and drink, even his sister couldn't calm him down. Ten days he laid motionless with the left side on the earth. Then he turned around and laid another ten days on the right side. Then he stood up and said to his sister she should make him a loop, so that he could catch the sun. She produced one as good as she could. The little wasn't satisfied with it. So she cut her long pigtails and gave them to him. That better appealed to him; he took them, threw them, to moisten them, through his lips so that the became red and bit by bit a long metal rope built up. At midnight he started his trip so that he could get the sun before sunset. And - he was lucky! He catched it and hold it so tight, that she couldn's rise up.

Now it was great distress in the animal kingdom. The birds couldn't see the trees and flew against them, the other animals ran in the nearby lake in this darkness and drowned. A meeting was held under the animals and they decided to cut the rope. But that wasn't so easy. Everyone that came near to the sun was nearly roasted. At last the hamster took over this perilous work. At that time he was the most powerful and biggest animal of the world and looked like a mountain when he straightened up. He really came to the mentioned place and freed the sun but was thereby burned down to  the nonentity in which we see him nowadays.