Moon spots are tattoo marks

Motif

Moon spots are tattoo marks.

Mythological motifs. · Cosmogony and cosmology. · The heavens. · The moon. · Nature and condition of the moon. · view the constellation · filed as A751.5.5

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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.

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Within the index

Filed under Man in the moon from scratches or paint.

Filed beside it

Man in the moon: moon's face scratched by hare in retaliation for injury to hare. (Cf. A2216.3.)Man in the moon: dung (ashes) on moon's face smeared there by sun Mark of her mother's hand to be seen on moon's shoulder Mark of tiger's paw on moon

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