Moon's phases caused by animals gnawing at edge

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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

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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 (Paressi)Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 360.

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

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Moon cut in half Moon stolen and divided into quarters

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