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1. Twin brothers are abandoned and raised by wolves. When they are grown, they help their grandfather defeat the impostor ruler of Alba Longa and return to the throne. They then found a nearby city, but a sign from the gods deems only one of them the new ruler.
2. The Hero Twins go to the underworld to avenge the murder of their father and uncle (who were also twins). On the way, they challenge and destroy a bird who claims to be the sun. The real sun then takes its rightful place in the sky.
3. An archer shoots down the nine suns and is banished, along with his wife, to the earth. The wife wishes to return to heaven, so the archer travels the world to find her the elixir of immortality, which must be taken on a clear night. The impatient wife takes it right away and becomes trapped in the moon. The husband is granted one night a year to be with his wife--which is when the harvest moon shines the brightest.
4. Three gods create the universe from the body of a slain frost-giant. His blood becomes the sea, his skull becomes the heavens, his flesh becomes the earth, and his eyebrows become a place where humans could live: Middle Earth. An ash tree called "Yggdrasill" connects the worlds.
5. The ruler's evil brother commissions a beautiful chest to be made. At a party, he invites all those present to lay down in it, and says that whoever fits best in the chest may have it. The ruler, of course, fits best and his brother immediately pours lead over it, killing the ruler and claiming the throne for himself. The dead ruler's wife finds the chest and holds vigil over it until the usurper finds them and tears the body to pieces. The dead ruler is resurrected for one night and then becomes lord of the underworld.
6. The ruler's sister, an evil sorceress, induces her lover to steal the ruler's powerful sword and kill him with it. However, the lover fails and is killed by the ruler. The evil sister continues to torment the ruler until he is mortally wounded by his son, at which point she takes him by boat to a magical place.
7. The two daughters of Old Moon wish to marry stars they see in the sky. Their wish is granted, but while the older one is pleased with her match, the younger one is upset because her husband is ancient. The older one conceives a child, Young Moon, and the three escape back to earth, where the baby is kidnapped by dog salmon. Young Moon grows up, is rescued, and shows his great powers by creating the sun, the moon, and humans, who spent their days fishing for dog salmon.
8. The high god chooses a lizard and a chameleon as messengers to deliver his words to humanity. The lizard carries the message that people will die and that will be the end of them; the chameleon carries the message that people will die but return to life. The lizard, being faster, arrives first. The humans accept this fate as the will of the high god, and by the time the chameleon arrives, it is too late: humanity's fate is sealed.
9. To win the hand of a beautiful woman, a young hero performs the "salmon's leap" to cross a treacherous bridge; learns the art of battle from the fiercest Amazon warrior in the world; tricks his teacher's enemy into pledging peace; and returns to slay his beloved's father and run off with her. He continues to kill anyone who stands in their path until streams of his enemies' blood runs over the plains. The place becomes known as Sod of Blood. The hero, left with no enemies to conquer, marries his beloved.
10. The first woman is given the gift of a beautiful jar, which she is told not to open. Curiosity gets the best of her and she disobeys the warning, setting free all the evils known to the gods. She quickly closes the jar, but only hope remains inside.
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