Moon's waning caused by her sickness.

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Moon's waning caused by her sickness.

Mythological motifs. · Cosmogony and cosmology. · The heavens. · The moon. · Nature and condition of the moon. · view the constellation · filed as A755.3

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Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

S. Am. Indian (Toba)Métraux MAFLS XL 19.
general Belden MLN XX 205
general Penzer VI 119 n. 1. – Maori: Clark 182

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Filed under Causes of moon's phases.

1 finer motif beneath it

Sacrifice made to free moon from sickness and allow waxing

Filed beside it

Moon's phases caused by its being put in box. (Cf. A754). When it is closed up in the box, it is dark; when taken out of the box, light Moon's phases caused by watcher's death. Moon is hung in tree and is tended by four men. As one dies it loses a quarter. Later it is united in the lower world Moon cut in two by sun: hence waxes and wanes Moon's phases caused by feeding or starving Moon's phases as punishment for moon's misdoing Moon's waning caused by menstrual period

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