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 together

Motif

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 together.

Mythological motifs. · Cosmogony and cosmology. · The heavens. · The moon. · Creation of the moon. · view the constellation · filed as A742

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

Africa (Ekoi)Talbot 349.

Within the index

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

Filed beside it

Moon from object (person) thrown into sky Moon from transformed object Heavenly smith is hammering on the moon Family of the moon Person transformed to moon

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