Moon is hare covered with silver, which lives in crystal house with fifteen windows. It rests on a chariot and travels around Mount Meru

Motif

Moon is hare covered with silver, which lives in crystal house with fifteen windows. It rests on a chariot and travels around Mount Meru.

Mythological motifs. · Cosmogony and cosmology. · The heavens. · The moon. · Nature and condition of the moon. · view the constellation · filed as A759.4

Filed across the traditions

India Thompson-Balys.

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

Moon has wooden weapons, therefore vulnerable Sun and moon as divine hero's wedding presents Why the moon is pale 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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