One of the most widespread legends is that of the Mink, son of the Sun, and his adventures with his father's burden, the sun disk. The legend follows:

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One day a woman sat out in the warm sun. As she sat there, she became pregnant from the Sun's rays. A few months later, she gave birth to a baby boy, who grew with marvelous rapidity, and who, even before he could talk, indicated to his mother that he wanted a bow and arrows. Other children taunted him for having no father, but when his mother told him that the Sun was his parent, he shot his arrows into the sky until they formed a ladder. He climbed to the Sun's house. The father requested the boy to relieve him of the sun-burden, which the boy did willingly. However, the boy, carelessly impatient, swept away the clouds and approached the earth. The earth became too hot, the ocean boiled, the stones split and all life was threatened. The Sun Father became very angry at his son's actions and cast his offspring back to earth, condemning him to take the form of the Mink.