Thankfully, the sun always reconsiders its retreat and returns to the skies. Inuit of ... The myth is that an eclipse is caused by fighting between the sun and the moon. When an eclipse occurs ...

Inuit folklore, said Todd Young, director of the Fred G. Dale Planetarium at Wayne State College in Nebraska, had a more benign explanation: The sun and the moon were a warring brother and sister.

In Hindu mythology, the battle between Surya ... took it as a sign to put aside grudges and end feuds. The Inuit, the sun and moon were brother and sister who were fighting with each other.

This decapitation myth symbolizes the daily victory of the sun over the moon ... Among the Inuit tribes of Greenland, Anningan is considered their main moon god. From his great igloo in the ...

Among some Inuit peoples, the moon was a benevolent spirit who ... than a mere satellite reflecting the light of the sun, it shoulders mythology, legend and folklore that dates back almost as ...

Cultures all over the world developed myths ... example, Inuit folklore, as well as the folklore of the Batammaliba of Benin and Togo — the eclipse is a result of the Sun and the Moon fighting.

In Maori myth, the moon ... making it her home. The Inuit believe that Anningan, the moon god, raped his sister, the sun goddess, and that every night, he chases her to possess her again.

His soldiers learned much from the Inuit, including building igloos, deciphering the meaning of snowdrifts, ice fishing, hunting and butchering caribou — and observing the moon dog and sun dog.