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===Sun and Moon=== This version is much like the blind-boy version, but covers only the end of the story, beginning with the assault in the dark. During a festivity, someone comes into the sister's dwelling, extinguishes her {{lang|iu|[[qulliq]]}} lamp, and either fondles her or lies with her. Knowing it will happen again, she puts soot on her face. Her visitor comes again, getting soot on himself this time. When he leaves, she follows. Laughter is coming from the communal {{lang|iu|qaggiq}} where the festivity is happening. She goes and sees. The people are laughing at Aningaat because he has soot on his face. Devastated by this, she cuts off a breast (merely exposing it in Kappianaq){{sfn|Kappianaq|1998}} and offers it to him, telling him to eat it if he likes her body so much. (The bit about the breast is not in Kusugaq's telling).{{sfn|Kusugaq|1979}} A chase ensues. Both are carrying torches but the brother's goes out. The chase ascends to the heavens where they become the sun and moon, still chasing each other.
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