The sun was a
young woman who lived in the east and the moon was her brother that lived in
the west. The girl had a lover who would come and visit her once a month, when
the moon was gone and it was dark. She never saw his face because it was so
dark and he never told her his name. She thought of a plan, when they were
walking in the dark the sun slyly dipped her hand in the cedar ashes and rubbed
it on his face. She acted sorry and he left, not knowing he had ashes on his
face. The next night when the moon came up he was covered in spots and the sun
knew it was he. After the moon was so
ashmed he stayed as far away from her as he could on the other end of the sky.
And when she comes near he makes himself hardly seen.
Some old people
say that the moon was once a ball thrown into the sky during a game. When on
team was sure to lose the leader picked it up and tried to throw it (illegally
move) into the other teams goal. When the ball remains in the sky to remind
players not to cheat and for this reason they formally played during a full
moon.
When the sun and
the moon would eclipse it is because a great frog up in the sky is trying to
swallow it. The frog was from the underworld and would come up and eat the sun,
so people would fire guns and beat their drums to frighten him and send he
back.
The great thunder
and his two thunder boys lived far in the west. The lightening and the rainbows
were there clothes. There are also other thunders that live lower down that cause
mischief. They say one cannot point at a rainbow or their finger will swell.
Biography: Moon and Thunders
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