Puduvri, the Moon, is the Sun's inseparable companion in the demiurge cycle and his foil in temperament. Rash, envious, and forever imitating his abler partner, the Moon repeatedly turns the Sun's benevolent intentions to ruin: it is through the Moon's insistence that human beings die once and for all instead of reviving, that they grow old and ugly, and that childbirth and social life are hard. His clumsy attempts to copy the Sun's feats leave him burned, injured, or diminished. Sources present Sun and Moon less as rivals than as an asymmetrical pair whose combined acts, the wise and the foolish alike, account for the world as the Canela find it.