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The Sun Maiden and the crescent moon : Siberian folk tales
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The Sun Maiden and the crescent moon : Siberian folk tales

Author: James Riordan
Publisher: New York : Interlink Books, 1991.
Edition/Format: Book : English : 1st American edView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: James Riordan
ISBN: 0940793660 9780940793668 0940793652 9780940793651
OCLC Number: 22108787
Description: x, 205 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents: My dear Little Deer (Nenets) -- Akanidi the bright sunbeam (Saami) -- How happiness came (Saami) -- The raven and the owl (Eskimo) -- How the Chukchi people became friends (Chukchi) -- The Sun Maiden and the Crescent Moon (Ket) -- Kotura, lord of the winds (Nenets) -- Aioga (Nanai) -- Brave Azmun (Nivkh) -- Why hares have long ears (Mansi) -- The boy and tiger (Ulchi) -- The cuckoo (Nenets) -- How Anga fetched a serpent's skin and a bear's fur (Nanai) -- The Silver Maid (Saami) -- The girl and the moon man (Chukchi) -- Mergen and his friends (Nanai) -- Coot and the fox (Itelmen) -- Father of sickness (Nganasan) -- Who is strongest (Nanai) -- Choleree (Even) -- The little whale (Chukchi) -- Bold Yatto and his sister Tayune (Nenets) -- Aipanana and Etuvgi (Eskimo) -- The eight brothers (Chukchi) -- Ankakumikaityn the nomad wolf (Kerek) -- Net-Pos-Hu the archer (Khanty) -- Greedy Mogus and the orphans (Yakut) -- Little Oonyani (Evenk) -- The water sprite (Tofalar) -- Why the sun forsook the Tundra (Koryak) -- Mayaki (Udegei) -- How the sun was rescued (Eskimo) -- The Clayman and the golden-antlered elk (Saami) -- Ememcoot and the forest maiden (Itelmen) -- Two brothers (Dolgan) -- The one-eyed man and the woman-vixen (Aleutian) -- Mistress of fire (Selkup) -- The two suns (Udegei) -- Wife for a walrus, lord of the sea (Nivkh) -- Tynagirgin and Gitgilin (Chikchi) -- Niraidak (Evenk) -- Man-bear (Yukagir) -- Daughter of the moon, son of the sun (Saami).
Responsibility: collected and translated by James Riordan.

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