Moon married to mortal woman

Motif

Moon married to mortal woman.

Mythological motifs. · Cosmogony and cosmology. · The heavens. · The moon. · Nature and condition of the moon. · view the constellation · filed as A753.1.4

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Scholars’ trail — 2references

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 (A753.2)
Eskimo (Kodiak)Golder JAFL XVI 29ff., (Cumberland Sound): Boas BAM XV 198, (Greenland): Rasmussen III 50, 52, Rink 441, Holm 47.

Within the index

Filed under Moon as wooer. The moon is enamored of a mortal.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Moon married to son of sky-god 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

Filed beside it

Moon abducts woman Moon (man) cohabits with woman Moon (goddess, woman) cohabits with mortal man Moon and mortal have child

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