the moon (Iosco legend)

Role: the Sun's sister · First appears: Iosco; or, the Prairie Boys' Visit to the Sun and Moon · Part 3

In Iosco; or, the Prairie Boys' Visit to the Sun and Moon · Part 3, the moon was the sun’s sister. In Part 4, she and the sun (Iosco legend) received the two young men (Iosco legend) as their children, and the young men thanked them with feasting and gifts.

Relationship record

Life events

• The young men expressed gratitude to the sun and moon with feasting and gifts.(Iosco; or, the Prairie Boys' Visit to the Sun and Moon · Part 4)
  • With: the two young men (Iosco legend) the sun (Iosco legend)
  • “they expressed their gratitude to the different Manitoes who had preserved them, by feasting and gifts, and particularly to the sun and moon, who had received them as their children.”

Iosco; or, the Prairie Boys' Visit to the Sun and Moon · Part 3

• siblings with the sun (Iosco legend) “I will, by and by, have leisure,” said she, “and will go and conduct you to my brother, for he is now absent on his daily course: you will succeed in your object, and return in safety to your country and friends, with the good wishes, I am sure, of my brother.”

Iosco; or, the Prairie Boys' Visit to the Sun and Moon · Part 4

• foster-child: the two young men (Iosco legend) “They did not conceal anything; and they expressed their gratitude to the different Manitoes who had preserved them, by feasting and gifts, and particularly to the sun and moon, who had received them as their children.”
• recipient: the two young men (Iosco legend) “They did not conceal anything; and they expressed their gratitude to the different Manitoes who had preserved them, by feasting and gifts, and particularly to the sun and moon, who had received them as their children.”

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Extracted from the original text of The Myth of Hiawatha, and Other Oral Legends. Made with Rho MD.