Moon has wooden weapons, therefore vulnerable

Motif

Moon has wooden weapons, therefore vulnerable.

Mythological motifs. · Cosmogony and cosmology. · The heavens. · The moon. · Nature and condition of the moon. · view the constellation · filed as A759.1

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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 (Toba)Métraux MAFLS XL 19.

Within the index

Filed under Condition and nature of the moon – miscellaneous. For eclipse of the moon see A737, where both eclipses of the sun and moon are handled.

Filed beside it

Sun and moon as divine hero's wedding presents Why the moon is pale Moon is hare covered with silver, which lives in crystal house with fifteen windows. It rests on a chariot and travels around Mount Meru Formerly seven moons Moon under direct control of deity Planet Mars lies on moon to impart warmth to her lest she freeze the earth. (Cf. A780)

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