September 16, 2009.

This is very interesting to read. Compares different regions of the Arctic Sky myths.

Creation Myths
In addition to the creation of the earth, stories about the creation of the heavens or stories about the heavens reflect many of the same ideas as origin myths. For instance, the importance of hunting is reflected through Inuit constellations. The Alaskan Inuit identify a constellation called Sharing-Out of Food, which they interpret as dogs chasing a bear, and Three Lost Hunters is another constellation about which the Canadian Inuit tell a story about hunters, their sledge, and a bear they are hunting. The Polar Inuit describe a bear and dogs in the sky in addition to a seal hunter.

The Polar Inuit of Greenland describe Venus in terms of their environment. During the winter, hunters sought seals at breathing holes in the ice. A hunter's dog would locate a seal hole and then the hunter would clear off the hole, checking to see if seals were still frequenting it, then he would cover it up again. Next he would make a spear hole so that when a seal surfaced to breathe an indicator made out of a downy feather or some other sensitive material, would quiver. After waiting quietly so as not to scare potential prey, a hunter might spot a seal and would then thrust his spear into the hole, killing a seal. The story of Venus says:

There was once an old man who stood out on the ice and waited for seals to come to the breathing holes to breathe. But close to him on the shore, a large troop of children were playing in a cleft of the fjeld [a barren plateau]; and time after time they frightened the seals away from him just as he was about to harpoon them.

At last the old man became furious with them for disturbing his seal-catching and shouted, 'Close, cleft, over those who frighten my catch away!' And immediately the cleft closed in over the playing children. One of them, who was carrying a little child, got the tail of her fur coat cut to bits.

Then they all began to scream inside the cleft of the rock because they could not get out - And no one could take food to them down there, but they poured a little water down to them through a tiny opening in the fissure. And they licked it up from the side of the rock. At last they all died of hunger.

People then attacked the old man who had made the rock close over the children by his magic. He started off at a run, and the others ran after him. All at once he became luminous and shot up to the sky, and now he sits up there as a great star. We see it in the west when the light begins to return after the long Dark; but very low down --- it never comes up very high. We call it Nâlagssartog (He Who Stands and Listens), perhaps because the old man stood out on the ice and listened for the seals to come up to breathe.

Link to site with more info on inuit.