Anningan and Malina are brother and sister. Their sibling relationship is central to the Inuit origin myth of the moon and sun.
Anningan pursued his sister Malina after assaulting her in darkness. When she fled into the sky and became the sun, Anningan became the moon, eternally chasing her across the heavens but never catching her.
Kadlu's thunder occurs during the Arctic summer when Malina's sun shines longest. The thunder goddess is most active in the season of light, her rumbling accompanying the warm-weather storms of Malina's bright months.
Malina illuminates the sky realm where Pinga watches over the souls of the living. Pinga guides worthy souls upward through the sunlit heavens toward the celestial paradise that Malina's torch makes radiant.
Qudlivun is the land of eternal light, and Malina the sun goddess provides that radiance. The celestial paradise sits in the sky realm where Malina's warmth banishes the cold and darkness of death.
Malina carries light across the sky while Sedna dwells in perpetual darkness beneath the sea. The sun goddess illuminates the world above where hunters pursue the seals that Sedna releases from the deep.
Malina the sun goddess illuminates the sky that is Sila's domain. Her light and warmth temper Sila's cold, and the seasonal cycle of her presence and absence shapes the Arctic year.
Shamanic rituals under Torngarsuk's power often occurred during the dark polar winter when Malina was absent. Her return in spring marked the end of the intense spirit-world activity that dominated the lightless months.
Tulugaak stole the sun and released it into the sky, creating the light that Malina the sun goddess now embodies. The raven's cosmic theft gave birth to the solar cycle that Malina maintains.
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