In Muscogee (Creek) tradition the Sun, Hvse, is reckoned female and is the foremost celestial body, the maker of seasons and the marker of the passage of time. She and the Moon are paired as sister and brother, a relationship preserved in the widely recorded Southeastern myth of the brother and sister who became the sun and moon. Both luminaries were brought into being by the Master of Breath at the ordering of the cosmos. Solar eclipses were understood as the Sun being covered or threatened by a great frog or toad, and people made loud noises to drive the danger away. The same word, hvse, denotes both the sun and the lunar month.