μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
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.

  • general S. Am. Indian (Caviña, Tumupasa): Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 448, (Chamacoco): Métraux BBAE CXLIII (1) 366, (Guarani): Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 93, (Tembé): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 140, (Toba): Métraux MAFLS XL 142f., (Peru): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 123.
Within the index

Filed under Man in the moon. A man is said to be seen in the moon. Various explanations are given as to how he came to be there.

5 finer motifs beneath 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 sunMark of her mother's hand to be seen on moon's shoulderMark of tiger's paw on moonMoon spots are tattoo marks
Filed beside it
Man in moon is person thrown or sent there as punishmentMan in the moon a rabbit (hare, other animal)Frog in moonMan in the moon: tarring of the moon. Man sets out to tar the moon and remains with his tar-bucket in the moonCotton tree and nettles on moonTwo children in moon with yoke and bucketWoman in the moonMiscellaneous images on moonParticular individual is man in the moonOther marks on the moon

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