Of eight battalions of Sun and Moon

When the Light was separated from the Darkness, the King of the Sun wrote to the King of the Moon:

I shall guard the Day, and thou will guard the Night.

But the King of the Moon answered:

Not so, for I am not the the sovereign of the Night, which is ruled by the Queen of the Shadows. My troopers are riders of swift horses galloping more than dozen times faster than your battalions can march. So I shall guard the Evening for one week, and then I shall help to the Queen of the Shadows to guard her Night for another week, and then my troops shall guard the Morning for another week, and then they shall help thee to guard thy Day for the last week.

And it was so. The troops of the Moon passed trough the Evening, and trough the Night, and trough the Morning, and were approaching the camp of the battalions of the Sun. But the king of the Sun was displeased with this, and he feared that they could try to seize his throne. So he summoned his scouts and said to them:

Go and see if the army of the Moon is less numerous than our and thus whether we can stop them by our powers.

And his scouts went, and they came back, and they said:

Our army has three battalions, which is 36 troops, and the Moon army has 37 troops, thus one troop more than have we. But they pass around our camp in the distance of five daymarches.

And the Moon army passed around the camp in peace, but the King of the Sun nevertheless commanded his craftsmen that more weapons shall be wrought, and he summoned more warriors.

And the troops of the Moon again passed trough the Evening, and trough the Night, and trough the Morning, and were again approaching the camp of the battalions of the Sun. And the king of the Sun again sent his scouts, and they went, and they came back, and they said:

Our army has now five battalions, which is 60 troops, and the Moon army has 62 troops, thus two troops more than have we. And they will pass around our camp in lesser distance than last time.

And the Moon army again passed around the camp in peace, and the King of the Sun again commanded his craftsmen that still more weapons shall be wrought, and he summoned still more warriors.

And the troops of the Moon again passed trough the Evening, and trough the Night, and trough the Morning, and were again approaching the camp of the battalions of the Sun. And the king of the Sun again sent his scouts, and they went, and they came back, and they said:

Our army has now whole two regiments, which is eight battalions, which is 96 troops, and the Moon army has 99 troops, thus 3 troops more than have we. And this time they are aiming directly to our camp.

And the King of the Sun said:

Alas, so they are more numerous than us.

But one of the scouts, who saw the troops of the Moon more closely than the others, said:

It is not so, their and our powers are exactly equal.

Our squads consists of three fireteams and one decurion commanding them, that is together ten warriors; but their squads consists only of two fireteams and one septurion commanding them, that is together only seven warriors.

And our troops consists of three squads, that is 30 warriors; but their troops consists of four squads and one commander, that is only 29 wariors.

And our squadrons consists of three troops and one commander, that is 91 warriors; but their squadrons consists only of two troops and one commander, that is only 59 warriors.

And our battalions consists of four squadrons and one commander, that is 365 warriors; and their battalions consists of four squadrons without a commander, that is only 236 warriors.

And our regimens consists of four battalions and one colonel, that is 1461 warriors; and their regiments consists of four battalions with one colonel and one extra headquarter troop, that is only 974 wariors.

And our brigade consists of two regiments, that is 2922 warriors; and their brigade consists of three regiments, that is also 2922 wariors.

And the King of the Sun awaited in the front of his regiments the arrival of the Moon troops, and then addressed their leader:

Be welcome, King of the Moon, if thou art comming in peace.

But when the leader of the Moon troops lifted the visor and took off the helmet, the King of the Moon beheld in astonishment a beautifull woman.

And she said:

Doest thou not know that my brother is commanding our troops fifteen nights while I am resting, and then he rests and I take over the command for fifteen days?

And the King of the Sun knelt before the Queen of the Moon and said to her:

Graceful lady, will thou marry me?

And the Queen of the Moon answered:

I do like thee, but would we get married and settle down, who would then guard the Day?

And just then a winged dragon landed there and said to them:

Twice a year I or my sibling shall come here and shall guard the Day, and in such times ye may put away your weapons and in safety enjoy each other.

And it is so since yon times that when in the place guarded by a dragon the King of the Sun meets the Lady of the Moon, and also when in such place the Lord of the Moon meets the Queen of the Shadows, they cease their work of shining, disappear from the sky, and in privacy devote themselves to their matrimonial matters.

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