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Show SUN AND MOON. A Couple of Interesting Folklore Stories Concerning Those Luminaries. The most touching of all folklore stories sto-ries may be found in Charles F Lum-mis Lum-mis "Pueblo Folklore." It is one of the many myths of the moon and beautifully beauti-fully conceived. The sun is the Allfa-ther, Allfa-ther, the moon the Allmother, and both shine with equal light in the heavens. But the Trues, the superior divinities, find that man, the animals, the flowers, weary of a constant day. They agree to put out the Allfather's, or sun's, eyes. The Allmother the moon offers herself her-self as a sacrifice. "Blind me,'' she says, "and leave my husband's'eyes. " The Trues say, "It is good, woman." They accept the sacrifice and take away one of the Allmother 's eyes Hence he moon is less brilliant than the sun. The man finds rest at night, and the flowers sleep. In Mrs. Leiber Cohen's translation of Sacher Masoch's "Jewish Tales" there is a variant of the sun and moon story derived from the Talmud. Briefly told, the sun and moon are equally luminous. It is the moon who wants to be more brilliant than the sun. Deity is angered at her demands. Her light is lessened. "The moon grew pale. Then God pitied her and gave her the stars for companions." |