398 W. THALBITZER. 
was extinguished, “therefore he looked like a glowing ember and can not 
shine like the sun.” The moon pursues the sun around the house, and they 
only ascend by degrees. While they are still circling about the house, and 
during the pursuit the sun cuts off one of her breasts with her knife (ulo) 
and shrieks: 
“nerriuk kissima! mamarinerparma.’ Eat that! Perhaps you find me 
alone to your taste? 
The sun got higher up into the sky than the moon; during the seasons 
when the moon is not visible, he resorts to the earth, where he drives in 
sledges and hunts for seals. 
A later version from West Greenland (the same locality) is to be found 
in Rink, but in a somewhat altered form. In his notes on the subject, Rink 
calls attention to the fact that this myth! agrees with a similar one from 
Pt. Barrow, northern Alaska, in which the cry of the sun is found almost word 
for word as given above, or as in his own version from North Greenland: 
A. 
unum ane aninap sererne ornik:aluarpa: SRe‘rne in‘arsaraluar 
pa? ite iluane sere ‘p ilisa‘lerame-” o-lorpe® ® (ner-ileo:mat™) awante 
pa'lerpa‘t at-arterpa: 
are-kut qa-griarmat serernip siput-ujokajik matsatertiyo®) qiluåts- 
amik kapitono ikfe.‘arpa: ® mit-iwakane pe'rtino anine milérpa & 
pe'maga'ma itiäqa ma una piniage 
ania anit-unile a®torta-raserte ® aniga:p siput-ojokajik qiluätca: me 
kapitino mat atertino™” ikiniakita-me:n malitiyo a "tarpon ® qamis-- 
га`га` gamit'ertorname'n aniartin is: iarpa: ©  qamiq:a:nat sipuktiitara:1- 
amen ikik-a‘name:n sivisid atita’tino® qamic:ia'ra: ® gimasiarmane 
mawa"nag unisiarpon”” une-ame tikerginisiarga ® 
VARIANTS. — (а) o‘lortopik ) negele‘emat (= o'tsim-at) ©) =erpa: (U cf. 
рипа’ ©) siwicid atertino À) tikerqiniciarpa: 
B. 
un-uame gamim-ate gqamina:tulermata™ serernip mise lerpa: tik-"a:p 
ornik-a ® ornim-ane at-ayilerpa® anine Шзаегате-К® so'rto'na aniya* 
paŸk-ime at-ersuit une ® 
at'”erame'y are'kut ike‘iarmata® takv'orniarpa: ana pacrtulit-ijo- 
kajik® 9 siput-ujokajik macaterteo qilimin kapit-ino ikitsertino™ tkim-at 
qamiananin:armat (qamin'awiain armat) ® mitiwak-ane pe:rtigo ® anine 
anina'ne milérpa: 
1 Rink (1866) no. 54, and (1871) p. 207. 
