μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 3references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

  • HawaiiBeckwith Myth 215.
  • general Admiralty Is.: Dixon 112
  • general Cook Group: ibid. 37
Within the index

Filed under Creation of the moon. (Cf. A710 to A719, where many of the motifs refer to the moon).

3 finer motifs beneath it
Moon is water slung into skyChest of sacrificed youth becomes the moonMoon as grinder which brings fire out of the sun
Filed beside it
Moon made from shining fragments. A cap is opened and shining things fall out. Children pick them up and put them into a box. At the end of the month the box is full. The full moon shines when all the fragments are gathered togetherMoon from transformed objectHeavenly smith is hammering on the moonFamily of the moonPerson transformed to moon

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