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In Norse mythology, the personification of the moon was a beautiful young goddess-princess called Mani. Each night she was charged with driving her chariot across the sky. In it, the precious and second brightest spark in the universe; the moon itself.

Mani and her sister, Sol (Godess of the Sun) were the daughters of the giant, Mundilfari. He was very proud of his daughters and had named them after the newly created orbs that were the sun and moon. All were overjoyed when Sol and Mani were chosen to drive the cars that conveyed them.

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Manni was male. The sun was feminine (Sunna) and the moon masculine. Even the name Manni has a diminutive masculine ending ... -i. Also, they did not have chariots, but rather carts. Other than those two errors, the above is correct. Oh ... Mundilfari's children were taken from him as punishment by the gods for daring to name his children after the Sun and Moon. Their jobs to draw their namesakes across the sky is punishment.

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