The Moon, the luminary of the night, is a celestial deity paired with his brother the Sun among the Arapaho star-people. In the star-husband narrative two young women, gazing upward, wish aloud to marry stars and are taken into the sky; the Moon is the husband of one of them, and from their union and her subsequent descent to the earth by a rope the story draws its account of the ties between sky and ground. As night-sun he complements the daytime power of the Sun in the ordering of the heavens.