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title: The Sun's Wife
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  name: Graciela Paula Caldeiro
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<h2 id="la-esposa-del-sol">The Sun's Wife</h2>

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  <img src="/327811/resources/commons-28851427.png" width="1280" height="731" alt="Chukchi women. Historical illustration from Popular Science Monthly." loading="lazy" decoding="async">
  <figcaption>Chukchi women. Historical illustration from Popular Science Monthly.<br>Source: <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PSM_V67_D100_Maritime_and_reindeer_chukchee_women.png" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Wikimedia Commons</a>. Public domain.</figcaption>
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A Chukchi woman married the sun, but a black beetle convinced her to exchange her clothing. The sun thought the beetle was his wife and took her home. The real woman gave birth to a son, who went in search of his father. The sun then killed the beetle and took back his true wife. When she missed her home, he would extend a sunbeam down to the earth so that she could descend and visit her father. The Inuit believe the sun is female, and according to a widely known myth she was violated by her brother, the moon.