Berhi is the personified Sun of Dargin belief, envisaged as a beautiful young man streaming with a blinding, brilliant light; in some accounts he dwells in the sea, entering and leaving its waters. He is the male partner in the widespread Dargin myth explaining the moon's dark markings: the sun and the moon loved one another, but when the moon boasted that she was the fairer of the two and more gazed upon, Berhi flung clods of unwashable dirt across her face, leaving the spots seen there ever since. The affronted moon fled, and the repentant sun has chased her across the heavens without ever catching up. Dargin groups differ on the pair's kinship: the Akusha reckoned the sun a mother and the moon her daughter, meeting once a year, while the Myuregi held the two to be brother and sister, the moon a boy and the sun a girl.