[AT THE ESKIMO BELIEV] 



The Aurora Borealis is a group of boys play- 

 ing football. Sometimes they use the skull of a 

 walrus for the ball. The swaying movement of 

 the lights shows that the players are struggling 

 with each other and tugging back and forth. If 

 the Aurora fades away and you utter a low 

 whistle, the boys will come back as if answering 

 to applause. 



The Milky Way is the snow that fell from the 

 Raven's snowshoes when he walked across the 

 sky, during one of his journeys while he was cre- 

 ating the inhabitants of earth. 



From Puget Sound at the northern border of 

 the United States all along the coast to Bering 

 Strait, both Indians and Eskimo believe that the 

 eagle, the raven, the goose, and perhaps any bird, 

 can push up its beak making it the visor of a cap 

 and thus become a man, and that by pulling it 

 down he can become a bird again. 



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