Moon is wife to all twelve brothers of the sun and they have her a month at a time because she ate up her sisters

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Moon is wife to all twelve brothers of the sun and they have her a month at a time because she ate up her sisters.

Mythological motifs. · Cosmogony and cosmology. · The heavens. · The moon. · Nature and condition of the moon. · view the constellation · filed as A753.1.4.2

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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.

IndiaThompson-Balys.

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Filed under Moon married to mortal woman.

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Moon married to son of sky-god

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