Raven and the Moon Woman (Haida)

myth · United States · North American

Raven became the son of Moon Woman and cried incessantly, saying 'Boo-hoo, moon!' His mother, exhausted by his noise, stopped up all the holes in the house and untied the strings of a box containing the moon, letting Raven play with it. When she left, Raven turned into a raven and flew about the house with the moon in his beak. He then cried for the smoke hole to be opened, and when his mother obliged, he flew through it with the moon under his wing. He perched on a house top and called like a raven. Raven flew to the Nass River where fishermen were taking olachen in total darkness. He bargain

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