"Once the sun fell by accident down from the sky just about sunrise, but the quick little mole was watching, and caught it before it touched the earth, and succeeded in holding it up until others arrived when, by excerting all their strength, they succeeded in replacing it where it belonged in the sky, but ever thereafter the mole's hands were bent far back to show how he had worked to hold up the sun."
From W.T. Olcott. Sun Lore of All Ages, 1914, p. 131-2.)
Perhaps the mole's hands bent far back depict the stars and sun appearing to revolve in reverse in earth's reverse orbit of the sun.