1924 Magnet Yearbook

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Years ago, \\'h('11 lIigllts were dark
1I1ld electricity ahselll, aslrollom)'
played a g-reat. part in arousillg a
superstitions fascination mid horror
in OUf anCl'l'torR. .JURI, as llulI,crinl
{'xistenee was supposed to arise from
nothing and be followed by nothing,
so day succeeds night; this they say,
is the origin of time, as the winter is
of the y;011 01' Kight. The
latter went first, motlllted 011 her
horse Hinfux, wllose name was composed
of ice. Ever,)' morning at the
lcrlllinntioll of his rounds, the courser
f;.Jlrinkled the cart.h, much in the same
fa.-;hion as a modeI'll sprinkling wagon
moistens the streets. This was dew.
Day C/llne close 011 the heels of Night
mounted on his steed, Sinfax, of the
glowing mane, W110 spread light over
all the air and the earth.
'nil' moon had its special history.
The Ilnei("llt Pl'ruvians concluded
that the moon was positively dead
during the thrl'p. nays it was invisible,
On the other hand the Khasias of
~orth-EasternIndia plact'n the blame
on the Sun, saying that it harl burned
UJl the moon. Some savages, however,
were certain that lunation was
a monthly "naggie and ,Jiggs" affair,
the SUII being Jiggs and the moon,
),fag-gie. The increasing" moon re­
\1I'eseut('d its ~rad\lal gaining of eon­
11'01, the decreasing its yicldiug, till
at last the SUIl, angrier thnn evcr,
swallowed it, flpitling' its 11ei!d ont
into the sky. '1'0 I he ~lJlcient Slavs it
was a matter of unrefjuited love, and
so they imagined that: Ihe moon WIlS
dOOllled to wander because of its UII'
faithfulness to the morning ~tllr.
Assuming the theory that the mOOu
\\·as made of cIH,"C~e, the Dakota 111­
diHII~ fallcied that the dc