Moon-boat — Mythoi

Motif

Moon-boat.

Mythological motifs. · Cosmogony and cosmology. · The heavens. · The moon. · Nature and condition of the moon. · view the constellation · filed as A757

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Depth Commentary Themis: A Study of the Social Origins of Greek Religion , CHAPTER VILL
Ancient Egyptian The Egyptian Book of the Dead , Chapter CXIV
Chinese Myths & Legends of China , Chapter I
Depth Commentary Themis: A Study of the Social Origins of Greek Religion , CHAPTER VI.
Middle Eastern The Thousand and One Nights, commonly called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments , Chapter 18

Filed across the traditions

Lappish Friis Lappisk Mythologi 79.

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.

1 finer motif beneath it

Moon-chariot

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) Causes of moon's phases Moon as sun's representative at night 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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