He asked the insect for his message and the insect told him the words of the Moon. I am sent by the Moon to men, to tell them that as she dies, and dying lives, they also shall die, and dying live. Let me go. When he returned to the Moon, the hare was punished for this words. Southern Nigerian Ekoi tribes talked about the sky-god Obassi Osaw, worrying about men.
Men fear to die.
They do not know that perhaps they may come to life again. So he sent two messengers to men, a duck and a frog. The duck had to go to the left, the frog had to go to the right. So the frog went and told his message to men. The duck also went, but reaching men she saw how people were making palm oil.