Created | Updated Aug 2, 2020
Everybody's got an eclipse story. The dancers in the photo are from the Kwakiutl people of British Columbia. There's an ancient story that when there's a lunar eclipse, a supernatural creature has swallowed the moon. To get it back, you do a dance around a fire. It makes the creature sneeze and cough up the moon. We call this a public service, also beautiful.
Yeah, yeah: we know about the Great Green Arkleseizure.
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