Barz, the Moon, is the male luminary of Lak sky-myth and the eponym of the month, since a single word names both. His pale light and shadowed face are accounted for by two overlapping stories. In the first he is the loser of a quarrel with the Sun, struck across the face with mud or snow, so that he shines dimmed and marked ever after. In the second the shadows are the figure of the orphan girl Zuhra, who fled ill-treatment on earth and was drawn up to the moon with her yoke and pails, which she carries there still. Lak tradition holds both accounts together without choosing between them.