Old-One and the Earth, Sun, and People

The Jesup North Pacific Expedition
Volume VIII, part II, page 321 - Mythology of the Thompson Indians by James Teit, 1912

A long time ago, before the world was formed, there lived a number of people together. They were the Stars, Moon, Sun, and Earth. The latter was a woman, and her husband was the Sun. The Earth-woman always found fault with her husband, and was disagreeable with him, saying he was nasty, ugly, and too hot. They had several children. At last the Sun felt annoyed at her grumbling, and deserted her. The Moon and Stars, who were relatives of the Sun, also left her, and moved over to where the Sun had taken his abode. When the Earth-woman saw that her husband and his friends had deserted her, she became very sorrowful, and wept much. Now Old-One appeared, and transformed the Sun, Moon, and Stars into those we see in the sky at the present day, and placed them all so that they should look on the Earth-woman, and she could look at them. He said, "Henceforth you shall not desert people, nor hide yourselves, but shall remain where you can always be seen at night or by day. Henceforth you will look down on the Earth." (The Sun was commanded to visit the Earth every night. He thus sleeps with, or spends the night with his old wife and he is seen leaving in the morning and returning to her at night.) Then he transformed the woman into the present earth. Her hair became as the trees and grass; her flesh as the clay; her bones, the rocks; and her blood, the springs or water. Old-One said, "Henceforth you will be the earth, and people will live on you, and trample on your belly. You will be as their mother, for from you, bodies will spring, and to you they will go back. People will live as in your bosom, and sleep on your lap. They will derive nourishment from you, for you are fat; and they will utilize all parts of your body. You will no more weep when you see your children." ...

The Sun moved to the other side of Earth just as the model describes at Joshua's Long Day. The Moon must move too, else that lunar month would only be 15 days. The planets must move also and find their place.