Causes of moon's phases — Mythoi

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Causes of moon's phases.

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

Filed across the traditions

Irish Beal XXI 323
Icel. MacCulloch Eddic 183
Estonian Loorits Grundzüge I 422f.
Lappish Qvigstad FFC LX 34 No 4
Hindu Oldenberg Religion des Veda 171
India *Thompson-Balys. Maori: Dixon 88. – African: Werner African 227f. (Ekoi): Talbot 349, (Fang): Trilles 172.
general Baltic: (Lithuanian and Lettish): Gray 320
general Yakuts: Holmberg Siberian 424

Within the index

Filed under Nature and condition of the moon. Many motifs in A720 to A739 refer to the moon and are not here repeated.

7 finer motifs beneath 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's waning caused by her sickness. 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

Filed beside it

Man in the moon. A man is said to be seen in the moon. Various explanations are given as to how he came to be there Moon as a person Moon kept in box. (Cf. A755.1) Moon as sun's representative at night Moon-boat Theft of moon. Moon is kept by a monster. It is stolen and brought to earth Condition and nature of the moon – miscellaneous. For eclipse of the moon see A737, where both eclipses of the sun and moon are handled

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