Stars made from the old moon.
The wise and the foolish. · Fools (and other unwise persons). · Absurd scientific theories. · Absurd astronomical theories. · view the constellation · filed as J2271.2.2
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
- North American IndigenousNavaho Legends, Legend 2
- Literary CrystallizationMasnavi i Ma'navi: The Spiritual Couplets (abridged), Book 1, Story 9
- North American IndigenousTales of the North American Indians, Tale 53LIII. THE ARROW CHAIN ™
- Literary CrystallizationThe Vision; or, Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, Paradise 28
- Indian / Hindu (Sanskrit epic)The Ramayan of Valmiki (Griffith verse translation), Book 2, Canto 3
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.
- general *Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin I 208 No. 10.
Carried in tale types
- The Old Moon and the Stars · ATU 1334*1 recorded variant