Malina
Inuit · deity · mythic · Recorded classification
Domains
- sun
Relations
- sibling: AnninganSister of the Moon Man Anningan; their eternal sky-chase explains the lunar phases and, when he overtakes her, the eclipse.Rasmussen, Intellectual Culture of the Iglulik Eskimos (1929) (primary)
Sources
- existence: Rasmussen, Intellectual Culture of the Iglulik Eskimos (1929) (primary); Boas, The Central Eskimo (1888) (primary)