Malina

Malina is the Sun Goddess of living in Greenland Inuit.

Malina is the sister of the moon god Anningan. When the two children were, they lived together and often played together in the dark. When they were grown up, raped Anningan his sister while they were playing again in the dark. In the resulting fight an oil lamp fell over and spotted Malina's hands with black grease. In an attempt to fight back and push Anningan of themselves, they blackened his face. Fearing Anningan fled Malina, as far as they could into the sky, where it became the sun. Since that hour was out of the dark days. But Anningan saw the injustice committed by him not one, followed Malina and so he became the moon. Every now and then he manages to catch his sister and to rape again. The result is a solar eclipse. Since his face is black, Anningan will appear black. He is so busy chasing Malina that he forgets to eat. So the Inuit explain the waning moon. This goes on until it is no longer visible on the new moon. Then it is again aware of the need to eat, and he eats ( waxing moon ).

Malina hates men as well as women Anningan hates. Men therefore do not go out of the house during a solar eclipse, women at the new moon.

Swell

  • Ansgar Walk: How the sun and moon were in the sky, Pendragon Verlag Bielefeld, 2003 ISBN 3-934872-41-7
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