ASTRONOMY ACCORDING TO EUT-LE-TEN

The sun and moon emerge from out the house of Nas-nas-shup. The giant

codfish guarding the entrance to the house, attempts to catch them

passing. He often fails, but there are times when he succeeds, then

there is darkness--an eclipse of the sun or moon the white men say,

but that is false, it is the cod. The many stars which sparkle in the

skies are Indians, who dwell above the earth. Such things and many

more were told by him, and Eut-le-ten was counted as a chief more

learned than any that had ever been.

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