μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Moon stolen and divided into quarters.

Mythological motifs. · Cosmogony and cosmology. · The heavens. · The moon. · Nature and condition of the moon. · view the constellation · filed as A755.4.2

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“What a pleasure it would be not to have to feel about at night in the darkness ! " " I'll tell you what we'll do," said the second ; " we will fetch a cart and horses and carry away the moon. The people here may buy themselves another." " I'm a good climber," said the third, " I will bring it down." The fourth brought a cart and horses, and the third climbed the tree, bored a hole in the moon, passed a rope through it, and let it down.”

Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes, Tale 175 · served from our shelf uncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan

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Filed under Moon cut in two by sun: hence waxes and wanes.

Filed beside it
Moon cut in halfMoon's phases caused by animals gnawing at edge
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Heaven. A blissful upper world

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