the Moon

Also known as: Moon · Family: Arikara · Role: moon · First appears: Tale 16 · No-Tongue and the Sun and the Moon · Part 1

In Tale 16, after finding No-Tongue dead, the Moon touched his feet and revived him. He claimed No-Tongue as his son, saying, “hereafter you shall be my son; but let your other father, the Sun, come after you first.”

When night came, the Moon instructed No-Tongue to cover a dark-brown robe with white clay powder so it would look white for the Sun. In Part 2, No-Tongue said the Moon had helped him all along, and the Sun was satisfied and took him up to his home.

Relationship record

Life events

• The Moon revived No-Tongue after finding him dead.(Tale 16 · No-Tongue and the Sun and the Moon · Part 1)
  • With: No-Tongue
  • “So the Moon went to the young man and touched his feet, and the young man waked and sat up.”
• The Moon claimed No-Tongue as his son.(Tale 16 · No-Tongue and the Sun and the Moon · Part 1)
  • With: No-Tongue
  • “hereafter you shall be my son; but let your other father, the Sun, come after you first.”
• No-Tongue followed the Moon's instructions to disguise a dark-brown robe as white for the Sun.(Tale 16 · No-Tongue and the Sun and the Moon · Part 1)
  • With: No-Tongue the Sun
  • “The Moon then began to tell No-Tongue what to do. He told him to get some white clay and make powder out of it, and then pour the white powder all over the robe, so that it would look white. So No-Tongue did as he was told to do.”
• The Sun took No-Tongue up to his home after No-Tongue explained that the Moon had helped him.(Tale 16 · No-Tongue and the Sun and the Moon · Part 2)
  • With: the Sun No-Tongue
  • “No-Tongue said, ‘My father, the Moon is also my father; he has helped me all along.’ So the Sun was satisfied, and the Sun took the old man up to his home.”

Tale 16 · No-Tongue and the Sun and the Moon · Part 1

• foster-child: No-Tongue “No-Tongue, hereafter you shall be my son; but let your other father, the Sun, come after you first.”

Tale 16 · No-Tongue and the Sun and the Moon · Part 2

• foster-child: No-Tongue “No-Tongue said, ‘My father, the Moon is also my father; he has helped me all along.’”
• with No-Tongue (The Moon persistently helped No-Tongue.) “No-Tongue said, ‘My father, the Moon is also my father; he has helped me all along.’”

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Extracted from the original text of Traditions of the Arikara. Made with Rho MD.