The Sun is a paramount celestial power of the Arapaho, honored above all in the great summer ceremony the people call the Offerings Lodge, known to outsiders as the Sun Dance, in which fasting dancers gaze toward the sun and offer their suffering for the renewal of life. In myth the Sun appears with his brother the Moon as one of the star-people: in the star-husband narrative the two brothers take earthly wives who have wished aloud to marry stars, the elder Sun contrasted with the younger Moon. He personifies the light and heat by which the world lives.