Note 3 — The Sun, the Moon, and Great Paddy

She told the eldest son to go speedily. That elder brother himself having become the Sun, goes very speedily. For the Sun, in very truth (aettēma), there is no rest. In the little time in which the eyelids fall, the Sun goes seven gawwas,3 they say. At the time when the Great Paddy is ripening, the Sun goes across (harahin).4 Because it is older than the Sun,5 the Great Paddy represents the elder sister.