Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 March 1918 — Eskimos Lunar Myth. [ARTICLE]

Eskimos Lunar Myth.

An Eskimo myth relates that “when a girl was at a party someone told his love for her by shaking her shoulders after the manner of the country. She could not see who it was in the dark hut; she smeared her hand with soot, and when he came back she blackened his cheek with her hand. When a light was brought she jaw that it was her brother and fled. ran after her and followed her, but as she came to the end of the earth she sprang out into the sky. Then she became the sun and he the moon, and this is why the moon is always chasing the sun through the heavens,, and why the moon is sometimes dark as he turns his blackened cheek toward the earth.”