A legend spoken in the Orient, tells about the naming of a year. The people of Orient (China, Japan, and other countries) have namings for 12 years. Each of those years named with one animal, each next named year changes each finished one by one. When all listed namings are finished, this list begins again. Ones when only 11 years took namings of 11 animals, the last one remained not named. Near to the beginning of the 12'th year the mouse and the camel were debating about whose name should take the next year.

Finally they decided to conduct the conquest; that one who'll first truelly declare about a sun, will be a winner, and with a name of winner will be named the last year in the list of 12 years. They set at the ground and waited for a dawn.

• The mice asked the camel to permit it to get on camel's head, because camel is taller and it sees farer.
• The camel agreed but, when mice got on camels head, camel required mouse, to look in opposite direction from the side were the sun comes from.
• Mice asked the camel about how it could see the sun if the sun comes from the other side.
• The camel told it is not its care, and it may manage its head as it wants.
• "A sun", screamed a mouse.
• The camel turned its head and saw the tops of mountains lighted by the sun.
• The mice turned together with camel's head at the next moment saw the Sun, came from the horizon.

Since the mice won the contest, its declaration went global.

This is not quite usual interpretation of the legend, if you want original find some. After the philosophy from Orient, taught that not everything is such as it looks like.