It ' s a lake with the same diameter as the orbit of mercury , scattered with lotus flowers the size of the Moon , each one containing a universe that is infinite on the inside . At the centre of the lake is a tiny rockpool I say tiny , it ' s like the radius of the Earth at least , ringed by thousandmileplus high mountains . The rockpool is littered with the bodies of murdered gods , some of whom are still slightly alive and in the process of bleeding out . There used to be two suns , one in the day , one in the night , until Utilnagu climbed a mountain to wait for the nighttime sun , and caught it in a bag so that everyone could sleep . The nighttime animals complained that they couldn ' t see now , so Utilnagu plucked out her own grey eye and placed it on the nighttime sun ' s rowboat to travel across the sky . Now , with only one eye and a bleeding socket where the other one should be , she took the nighttime sun and put it into her socket , where it fitted comfortably .