Moon's phases caused by animals gnawing at edge

Motif

Moon's phases caused by animals gnawing at edge.

Mythological motifs. · Cosmogony and cosmology. · The heavens. · The moon. · Nature and condition of the moon. · view the constellation · filed as A755.4.3

Filed across the traditions

S. Am. Indian (Paressi) Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 360.

Within the index

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

Filed beside it

Moon cut in half Moon stolen and divided into quarters

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