KUAT The Kamaiuran sun god, with his brother Iae, the moon, wished to create light so that their people could see, but lacked the means, so Kuat decided to steal the day from Urubutsin, the vulture king. He sent the flies with a effigy, full of maggots, but the vulture king could not make sense of the hum. One of his subjects eventually divined that the maggots were an offering from Kuat, and bore an invitation to visit the sun god and eat many more. But when Urubutsin landed on another effigy, this one hiding Kuat and Iae, Kuat seized his foot and would not let him go until the sun was given as ransom.