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“Take this since you have appetite for me!” 
(or “since you are so desirous of me!”) 
As she started to run out the moon began with a great to-do to 
moisten a lump of lamp-moss (and) light it' after which he started 
in pursuit of her in all his might, — but unfortunately it would not 
burn, it went out again and again." As often as he blows on it, it 
again catches fire. As it keeps going out he blows on it again and 
again and makes it catch fire again a little. !” Everytime his younger 
sister again goes further away from him, he keeps stopping again, 
just near Беге. (13) That is why the sun is further away when the 
moon is nearest (the earth). 
Cf. no. 5 (p. 190, note 23). It would otherwise be tempting to believe that this 
word is an error for ра’?те (or some other form of pa:®q), ‘with soot.’ 
Alegaajik gives that explanation in her commentary. 
C. 
_ The sun and the moon, were a younger sister and older brother. ® 
He had no satisfaction, it is told, in connubium or copulation with 
his sister?, but he often had copulation with strange women.®) 
When he, her older brother, lay down beside his sister, they did 
not recognize each other |?|.“’ When the lamps were lighted: “Look 
at him! he, who is so sooty, the brute!” She burst into tears from 
shame. When she had ceased weeping, to express her displeasure 
over [?] the fact that he had lain (with her) [she exclaimed]: 
“Since I taste so good to you, taste me so much that you de- 
vour this!” | 
Since I taste so good to you, devour me entirely!” 
Thereupon ....(?), thereupon the moon wished to hasten away 
to make her his mate.” To get her for his mate, he pursues her, 
though in vain. 
D. 
In the translation some of the variants from the phonograph are used. 
They had put out the lamps (and) their angakok began to sum- 
mon spirits. The older brother came to his sister to lie with her. ®@ 
When she became aware that it was her brother, she smeared him 
with soot [Phon. across the back (?), (and) after she had smeared 
him, they lighted the lamps].® Then she saw that her brother was 
sooty [Phon. sooty across the back?].“ When she saw that, she cut 
with the knife, with the ulo, her breast away, and after she had 
cut it off, she threw it over to her brother [saying:] © 
“As I taste so good to you, as you taste me so lustily, taste me!” © 
The support (?) of the lamp-moss she dipped a little into the 
blubber-oil [in a burning lamp?].® Her brother took also a piece of 
lamp-moss (and) kneaded it in blubber.® Pursuing each other his 
sister flew up into the air.® She rushed off to the sky [Phon. up 
there to the sky, up there]. ® Without its going out, she came up there 
[Phon. and she had fled up there), her brother followed her, ® 
[Phon. constantly following her, little by little he reached the sky with 
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