Moon wants to marry his sister the sun. She is angered and throws hot ashes on his face.
Mythological motifs. · Cosmogony and cosmology. · The heavens. · The moon. · Nature and condition of the moon. · view the constellation · filed as A751.5.2.1
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Filed under Man in the moon: dung (ashes) on moon's face smeared there by sun.
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