Sun and Moon (Inuit myth)

The story also explains the moon's dappled gray appearance as soot smeared on his face.

[1][2][3][4] In other versions he is simply called Moon (Inuktitut: ᑕᖅᑭᖅ, romanized: taqqiq, lit. 'moon').

[7] The sister is most commonly called Sun (Inuktitut: ᓯᕿᓂᖅ, romanized: siqiniq, lit.

[3][2] An account by Hans Egede reports her being called Malina or Ajut in Greenland.

[9] One version says their names are Taqqiq and Siqiniq, but that they call each other aninga and najanga, which are archaic forms of address between a brother and sister.

[13] Aningaat and his sister are orphans living with their grandmother (in some tellings their mother[4][2] or stepmother).

The brother asks his sister to take him to a nearby lake where there are red-throated loons (qaqsauq).

He stands by the lake until he hears the sound of a kayak and a voice invites him to sit in it.

One day his grandmother comes hunting whales with him, serving as the anchor for the harpoon line.

Nonetheless both siblings marry people from this group, and the sister becomes pregnant and gives birth.

During a festivity, someone comes into the sister's dwelling, extinguishes her qulliq lamp, and either fondles her or lies with her.

Devastated by this, she cuts off a breast (merely exposing it in Kappianaq)[3] and offers it to him, telling him to eat it if he likes her body so much.

Knud Rasmussen reports a Paallirmiut story from a storyteller named Kibkârjuk.