Anningan (the Moon Man) vs Malina (the Sun Woman)

The brother who became the moon after pursuing his sister, the sun, across the sky; in Iglulik tradition the Moon Spirit also helps angakkuit, watches over hunting and the birth of children, and punishes those who break taboos.

Across the Inuit Arctic the moon is a man and the sun is his sister. The story of how they came to the sky, told in slightly different forms from Greenland to Alaska, begins with a brother who visits his sister in the dark and a sister who discovers who he is; she flees with a burning torch and becomes the sun, and he chases her with a torch that goes out to embers and becomes the moon. His pursuit never ends, which is why the moon follows the sun and sometimes catches her, in an eclipse. The name Anningan, common in English-language books, reflects the Greenlandic Aningaaq; in Iglulik he is Taqqiq, the Moon Spirit.

The sister who became the sun: when she discovered that the visitor in the dark was her brother, she fled with a burning torch into the sky, and he has pursued her ever since as the moon.

In the widely told Inuit story of the sun and moon, a young woman is visited in the dark by a man she cannot see. To find out who he is, she blackens her hands with soot from the lamp and marks him. When the lamps are lit she sees the marks on her brother. In anger and shame she flees with a burning torch; he follows with his own, but his falls or burns down to embers. Both rise into the sky, where she becomes the sun and he, with his faint light, becomes the moon.