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.

  • HawaiiBeckwith Myth 242, Tuamotu: Stimson MS (T-G. 3/1010).
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.

6 finer motifs beneath it
Man in the moon is an old woman busy with her spindleMan in moon is a woman threshing corn with a dog by her sideGoddess in moon with calabash at her sideWoman in moon's oven seen on clear nightsGirl with tree carried to moon and is seen thereGoddess in moon beating tapa beneath tree
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 moonMan in the moon from scratches or paintCotton tree and nettles on moonTwo children in moon with yoke and bucketMiscellaneous images on moonParticular individual is man in the moonOther marks on the moon

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