Aletin and the Falling Sky: A Mocovi Myth

by Melinda Lilly

When the falling Sky causes the Sun to crash to the Earth, Aletâin saves the situation and finds that his people and their world have been changed forever.

Genres: Picture Books

31 pages, Library Binding

First published January 1, 1998

Reviews

[Mir · Rating 4 out of 5]

This story takes place at the beginning of the world. There are only a handful of people and the celestial bodies are not fixed in their places as they are today, which is awkward.



In addition to enjoying a story that I had never heard before, I learned some Mocobí vocabulary:
Dazoá, the Sun
Cidaigo, the Moon
Amanic, the constellation of the Southern Cross,
Raadic, the Via Lactea
Ypequim, the heavens
(Not sure if these are proper nouns, though)