the Moon

Role: moon · First appears: Myth 5 · The Daughter of the Sun

In Myth 5, the Sun spoke of the Moon as her brother, saying that her grandchildren grinned whenever they looked at her. In Myth 8, the Sun had a lover who visited in the dark of the moon; she rubbed ashes on his face to discover who he was. The next night, she recognized the Moon, and he kept as far away from her as he could.

Relationship record

Life events

• The Sun secretly rubbed ashes onto her lover’s face to discover his identity.(Myth 8 · The Moon and the Thunders)
  • With: the Sun
  • “she slyly dipped her hand into the cinders and ashes of the fireplace and rubbed it over his face”
• The Sun recognized the Moon as her lover, and he thereafter kept far away from her.(Myth 8 · The Moon and the Thunders)
  • With: the Sun
  • “The next night when the Moon came up in the sky his face was covered with spots, and then his sister knew he was the one who had been coming to see her. He was so much ashamed to have her know it that he kept as far away as he could at the other end of the sky all the night.”

Myth 5 · The Daughter of the Sun

• siblings with the Sun “She said to her brother, the Moon, ‘My grandchildren are ugly; they grin all over their faces when they look at me.’”

Myth 8 · The Moon and the Thunders

• siblings with the Sun “The Sun was a young woman and lived in the East, while her brother, the Moon, lived in the West.”
• admired: the Sun “The girl had a lover who used to come every month in the dark of the moon to court her.”

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Extracted from the original text of Myths of the Cherokee. Made with Rho MD.