μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Cotton tree and nettles on moon.

Mythological motifs. · Cosmogony and cosmology. · The heavens. · The moon. · Nature and condition of the moon. · view the constellation · filed as A751.6

Filed across the traditions
  • India Thompson-Balys.
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.

1 finer motif beneath it
Spots on moon a banyan tree planted there by creator to diminish its light
Filed beside it
Man in moon is person thrown or sent there as punishment Man in the moon a rabbit (hare, other animal) Frog in moon Man in the moon: tarring of the moon. Man sets out to tar the moon and remains with his tar-bucket in the moon Man in the moon from scratches or paint Two children in moon with yoke and bucket Woman in the moon Miscellaneous images on moon Particular individual is man in the moon Other marks on the moon
Carried in tale types

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