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==References== {{Reflist|20em}} ===Tellings of the tale=== ; Versions sourced to a storyteller {{Refbegin}} <!-- entries ordered by date --> * {{cite book |first=Knud |last=Rasmussen |author-link=Knud Rasmussen |date=1908 |title=The People of the Polar North <!-- contribution --> |contributor=Maisanguaq |orig-date=Interviewed in 1903 or 1904 |contribution={{ws|[[s:The People of the Polar North/Chapter 22|The Sun, the Moon, and the Stars]]}} |pages=173–174 |via=[[Wikisource]] }} * {{cite book |first=Knud |last=Rasmussen |author-link=Knud Rasmussen |title=Report of the Fifth Thule Expedition 1921{{en dash}}24 |publisher=Gyldendalske Boghandel, Nordisk Forlag |location=Copenhagen }} ** {{cite book |title=Intellectual Culture of the Iglulik Eskimos |volume=7 |date=1929 <!-- contribution --> |contribution={{ws|[[s:Intellectual Culture of the Iglulik Eskimos/Chapter 3#How the Moon Spirit first came.|How the Moon Spirit first came]]}} |orig-date=Interviewed 1921 |pages=77–81 |author=Ivaluardjuk |via=[[Wikisource]] }} ** {{cite book |title=Observations on the Intellectual Culture of the Caribou Eskimos |volume=7 |date=1930 <!-- contribution --> |contribution={{ws|[[s:Observations on the Intellectual Culture of the Caribou Eskimos/Chapter 6#The sun and the moon.|The sun and the moon]]}} |pages=79–80 |author=Kibkârjuk |via=[[Wikisource]] }} ** {{cite book |title=The Netsilik Eskimos: Social Life and Spiritual Culture |volume=8 |date=1931 <!-- contribution --> |contribution=The tale of the sun and moon |pages=232–236 |author=Nâlungiaq |contribution-url=https://archive.org/details/netsilikeskimoss00rasm/page/232/mode/1up |contribution-url-access=registration |via=[[Internet Archive]] }} ** {{cite book |title=The Netsilik Eskimos: Social Life and Spiritual Culture |volume=8 |date=1931 <!-- contribution --> |contribution=The Sun and the Moon |pages=524–526 |author=Ikinilik |orig-date=Interviewed spring 1923 |contribution-url=https://archive.org/details/netsilikeskimoss00rasm/page/524/mode/1up |contribution-url-access=registration |via=[[Internet Archive]] }} * {{cite book |first=Alex |last=Spalding |date=1979 |title=Inuit Unipkaaqtuat Pingasuniarvinilit |trans-title=Eight Inuit Myths |publisher=University of Ottawa Press |location=Ottawa |series= Museum of Man Mercury Series <!-- contribution --> |contribution=Aningaat |pages=33–50 |contributor-first=Thomas |contributor-last=Kusugaq |orig-date=Interviewed winter 1950 |contribution-url=https://archive.org/details/eightinuitmythsi0000unse/page/48/mode/1up |contribution-url-access=registration |via=[[Internet Archive]] }} * {{cite book |first=John |last=MacDonald |date=1998 |title=The Arctic Sky: Inuit Astronomy, Star Lore, and Legend |publisher=Royal Ontario Museum |location=Toranto |isbn=0-88854-427-8 }} ** {{cite book |date=1998 |title=The Arctic Sky <!-- contribution --> |contribution=The Sun and the Moon |pages=211–218 |first=George |last=Kappianaq |orig-date=Interviewed Dec 1986 |contribution-url=https://archive.org/details/arcticskyinuitas0000macd/page/211/mode/1up |contribution-url-access=registration |via=[[Internet Archive]] }} ** {{cite book |date=1998 |title=The Arctic Sky <!-- contribution --> |contribution=The Sun and the Moon |pages=219–220 |first=Hervé |last=Paniaq |orig-date=Interviewed Mar 1990 |contribution-url=https://archive.org/details/arcticskyinuitas0000macd/page/218/mode/2up |contribution-url-access=registration |via=[[Internet Archive]] }} * {{cite book |first1=Saullu |last1=Nakasuk |first2=Hervé |last2=Paniaq |first3=Elisapee |last3=Ootoova |author3-link=Elisapee Ootoova |first4=Pauloosie |last4=Angmaalik |date=1999 |title=Interviewing Inuit Elders |volume=1: Introduction |publisher=[[Nunavut Arctic College]] |isbn=1-896-204-317 |url=http://www.traditional-knowledge.ca/english/pdf/Introduction-E.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200416020132/http://www.traditional-knowledge.ca/english/pdf/Introduction-E.pdf |archive-date=April 16, 2020 <!-- contribution --> |contribution=Aningagiik |trans-contribution=Brother and Sister Legends |pages=162–181 |contributor-first=Alexina |contributor-last=Kublu |contributor-link=Alexina Kublu }} * {{cite magazine |first= Gayle Uyagaqi |last=Kabloona |date= Oct 20, 2021 |title= How I Choose to Carry on My Family's Artistic Legacy |magazine= Inuit Art Quarterly |url= https://www.inuitartfoundation.org/iaq-online/how-i-choose-to-carry-on-my-family-s-artistic-legacy |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20220705072839/https://www.inuitartfoundation.org/iaq-online/how-i-choose-to-carry-on-my-family-s-artistic-legacy |archive-date=Jul 5, 2022 }} {{Refend}} ; Unsourced versions {{Refbegin}} * {{cite book |first=Hans |last=Egede |author-link=Hans Egede |date=1818 |title=A Description of Greenland |chapter=The Greenlanders' Astronomy, or their Thoughts concerning the Sun, Moon, Stars, and Planets |location=London |publisher=Printed for T. & J. Allman |page=206 |url=https://www.gutenberg.org/files/58308/58308-h/58308-h.htm |via=[[Project Gutenberg]] }} * {{cite book |first=Henry |last=Rink |author-link=Hinrich Johannes Rink |date=1875 |title=Tales and Traditions of the Eskimo |chapter=The Sun and the Moon |location=Edinburgh and London |publisher=William Blackwood and Sons |page=236–237 |url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_KDNCAAAAIAAJ/page/236/ |via=[[Internet Archive]] }} * {{cite book |first=Franz |last=Boas |author-link=Franz Boas |date=1888 |title=The Central Eskimo |chapter=The tornait and the angakut |series=Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1884{{en dash}}1885, Government Printing Office |url=http://www.gutenberg.org/files/42084/42084-h/42084-h.htm |via=[[Project Gutenberg]] |pages=597–598 }} {{Refend}} ===Scholarship=== {{Reflist|group=lower-alpha}} {{Refbegin}} * {{cite book |first=Craig |last=Mishler |date=2013 |title=The Blind Man and the Loon: The Story of a Tale |location=Lincoln |publisher=University of Nebraska Press |isbn=9780803239821 |url=https://archive.org/details/blindmanloonstor00crai/ |url-access=registration |via=[[Internet Archive]] }} * {{cite book |first1=Zebedee |last1=Nungak |first2=Eugene |last2=Arima |date=1969 |title=Unikkaatuat |trans-title=Eskimo Stories |publisher=National Museums of Canada |location=Ottawa |url=https://archive.org/details/unikkaatuatsanau0000nung/ |url-access=registration |via=[[Internet Archive]] }} * {{cite book |first=Bernard |last=Saladin D'Anglure |author-link=Bernard Saladin D'Anglure |date=2018 |chapter=Chapter 4: Incestuous Moon Brother Chases Sun Sister |title=Inuit Stories of Being and Rebirth: Gender, Shamanism, and the Third Sex |location=Winnipeg |publisher=University of Manitoba Press |isbn=9780887558306 |doi=10.1515/9780887555596-025 |url=https://transreads.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/2021-07-23_60fa0ef1b4064_InuitStoriesofBeingandRebirthGenderShamanismandtheThirdSexbyDAnglureBernardSaladinz-lib.org_.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240402011421/https://transreads.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/2021-07-23_60fa0ef1b4064_InuitStoriesofBeingandRebirthGenderShamanismandtheThirdSexbyDAnglureBernardSaladinz-lib.org_.pdf |archive-date=April 2, 2024 }} {{Refend}} {{Inuit religion}} [[Category:Inuit deities]] [[Category:Solar goddesses]] [[Category:Lunar gods]] [[Category:Mythological people involved in incest]]
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