Two children in moon with yoke and bucket — Mythoi

Motif

Two children in moon with yoke and bucket.

Mythological motifs. · Cosmogony and cosmology. · The heavens. · The moon. · Nature and condition of the moon. · view the constellation · filed as A751.7

Filed across the traditions

Icel. MacCulloch Eddic 184, Boberg.

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.

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 Cotton tree and nettles on moon Woman in the moon Miscellaneous images on moon Particular individual is man in the moon Other marks on the moon

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