μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 8references

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.

  • IrishBeal XXI 323
  • Icel.MacCulloch Eddic 183
  • EstonianLoorits Grundzüge I 422f.
  • LappishQvigstad FFC LX 34 No 4
  • HinduOldenberg 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, lightMoon'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 worldMoon's waning caused by her sickness. Moon cut in two by sun: hence waxes and wanesMoon's phases caused by feeding or starvingMoon's phases as punishment for moon's misdoingMoon'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 thereMoon as a personMoon kept in box. (Cf. A755.1)Moon as sun's representative at nightMoon-boatTheft of moon. Moon is kept by a monster. It is stolen and brought to earthCondition 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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