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Syöjätär sleeps, Naavisemo rules
Long ago, in the far North, lived the Daughter of the Sun, Naavisemo (Njávezan, Njàveseatni), and the Daughter of the Moon, Syöjätär (lit. Eateress, aka Hàhtezan, Àhceseatni). Both women were pregnant when their husbands were killed, leaving Naavisemo and Syöjätär widowed. As a consolation, Father Beaivi (the Sun) gave both women wild reindeer to domesticate. After domesticating the reindeer, the women began to care for their herds (thus began the Sami reindeer husbandry).
