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peared completely when they began to call to him, but they followed and came to a rocky cleft on the land, and there they cried for water down to the Ingnerjuit spirits who lived there. It was one of these spirits they had seen as a breathing-hole hunter, and they let a thong down the wall of the cleft and with it got a bag full of water up, and so quenched their thirst. Again they let down a thong and drew up a tray with meat. And thus they appeased their hunger.

Afterwards brother and sister went on and lived through many experiences. They came to the kukijuat: the trolls with long claws. The brother killed them, because they tried to tear his sister to pieces when she asked for a drink of water.

Then they continued on their way and came to the Itqingat: the bottomless ones. There they remained, the sister getting a husband and the brother a wife. It was not long before the sister had a son. And while lying in the birth house she was often visited by a man who lay with her while the others of the village were holding song festivals. The man used to kiss her, so she blackened her mouth, and in that way discovered that it was her brother who had lain with her. Ashamed, she ran out of the snow hut and, when her brother set out after her, they began to run round and round the house until they suddenly started to rise in the air, each one with a torch in hand: they rose and rose until they came up into the sky, and in that way the brother became the moon; his torch had gone out on the way, but the sister, whose torch burned with a clear flame, turned into the bright and warm sun.

The moon now lives up there, leading the souls of the dead up to the Land of the Sky. It is kind to people and they are not afraid of it. But near his house lives the star Akjut. Akjut is dangerous, for when the Moon Spirit comes with the souls it falls on them to make them laugh, and, if they laugh, it cats their entrails.

The sun and the moon are only dangerous when there is an eclipse. Then people are afraid that they will be turned into evil spirits, and a seance must be held at once to keep them away from the village.