Kazti and Yakazti
The Twin Sisters, Goddesses of the End and Resurrection
The twin sisters Kazti and Yakazti were cast into the world in the first eclipse kiss of the universe. A few minutes after their appearance they were separated. One moved on with Mother Sun Hama and the other with Mother Moon Levana. The separation between the loving sisters was so traumatic that their souls knew no comfort. In the beat of the rift that was created between them, they vowed that the day would come when they would return to be side by side, as close as when they were born. On June 15, 743 B.C., the longest eclipse in the annals of creation occurred, lasting 7 minutes and 27.54 seconds. It was such a long eclipse that their mothers, Hama and Levana, who were focused on kissing in the celebration of the union, did not notice the sisters who slipped away from them under the dark cover of the day and placed themselves closer to the people and in two periods of time: at sunset and at dawn. Kazti and Yakazti were endlessly happy, and soon the two found their place among mortals and the cycles of nature: When one mourned - the other recovered, when one fell into the abyss of grief and despair - the other reached out and pulled her sister out, when one got lost - the other found direction, when one accompanied the dead - the other gave birth to the unborn, when one crashed - the other was rehabilitated, when one withered - the other blossomed, when one fell on the battlefield - the other ended the war, when one sunk into the realms of the dream - the other made it come true. |
Between these movements of being, in two periods of the day, at sunset and at dawn, they descend together from their work, pondering and curating, hand in hand, eternal cycles of end and resurrection, while their two mothers accompany them in the heavens.