Moon

Male lunar deity, counterpart of the female sun Ka Sngi — the second member of the foregrounded sun-sister/moon-brother dyad. 'U' marks masculine gender, 'Bnai' = moon/month. The myth doubles as a moral tale (incest punished) and a celestial etiology (moon's dimness; eclipses as the pursuit's climax). Khasi Roman orthography.

Parentage

• Earth Mother
• World-Guardian Consort of the Earth-Mother

Domains

• moon and night
• shame and transgression

Powers

• pursue the sun across the sky and cause the eclipse

Relations

• sibling: Sun

Sources

• P. R. T. Gurdon, The Khasis, Macmillan, 1907