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called Anningait, or Anningaſina; whoſe Siſter was the Sun, named Malina, or Ajut (by which latter Name they call any handſome Woman, for whom they have a Value, Ajuna.) The Reaſon why theſe two were taken up into Heaven, they give is this: There were once a Number of young Men and Women aſſembled to play together in a Houſe made of Snow, (according to their Cuſtom in the Winter Seaſon) when the Moon or Anningait,Cauſe of their Transformation. who was deeply in Love with his Siſter, who aſſiſted at this Aſſembly, was uſed every Night to put out the Light, that he might careſs her undiſcovered: But ſhe not liking theſe ſtolen Careſſes, once blackened her Hands with Soot, that ſhe might mark the Hands, Face, and Clothes of her unknown Lover, who in the dark made Addreſſes to her, and by that diſcover who he was: (Hence, they ſay, come the Spots that are obſerved in the Moon) for as he wore a Coat of a fine white Rain-Deer Skin, it was all over beſmeared with Soot) hereupon Malina, or the Sun, went out to light a Bit of Moſs; Anningait or the Moon did the ſame, but the Flame of
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