the sun (Iosco legend)

Role: the Moon's brother · 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 says she will conduct the two adventurers to her brother, the sun, when he returns from his daily course. He assures the young men they will reach their country safely and live without want.

In Iosco; or, the Prairie Boys' Visit to the Sun and Moon · Part 4, the young men express their gratitude to the sun and the moon (Iosco legend) with feasting and gifts, as they had received them as children.

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Life events

• The sun assures the two adventurers they will return safely and live without want.(Iosco; or, the Prairie Boys' Visit to the Sun and Moon · Part 3)
  • “But you two, as I said, shall get back to your country, and become as happy as the hunter's life can make you. You shall never be in want of the necessaries of life, as long as you are permitted to live;”
• 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 moon (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 moon (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.”
• recipient: Iosco “But you two, as I said, shall get back to your country, and become as happy as the hunter's life can make you. You shall never be in want of the necessaries of life, as long as you are permitted to live; and you will have the satisfaction of relating your journey to your friends, and also of telling them of me.”
• recipient: the other successful adventurer (Iosco legend) “But you two, as I said, shall get back to your country, and become as happy as the hunter's life can make you. You shall never be in want of the necessaries of life, as long as you are permitted to live; and you will have the satisfaction of relating your journey to your friends, and also of telling them of me.”

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.