Malina

Goddess | Inuit

The sun goddess in Inuit tradition; her brother the moon chases her across the sky in a story of violation and flight; their endless pursuit creates the cycle of light and darkness. Malina represents the sun as something won through suffering rather than granted — she fled into the sky to escape harm and became the light of the world in her flight. Her story inverts the usual heroic narrative: the victim becomes the cosmos.

Parallels: Amaterasu (Japanese — female sun deity, uniquely so), Apollo/Helios (Greek — solar radiance, though male); her chase-myth parallels Daphne fleeing Apollo, transformed into a cosmic fixture See also: Aningaaq, Sedna, Sila