A21A. Moon released. 19.

The moon is an object accidentally released by its owners or stolen from them and as a result falls into the sky.

Valman, Yatmul, Tumleo, Quanga, Pondoma, Bogajim, Kire, Purari Delta, Manus.

Melanesia. Valman (New Guinea's north coast) [parents went for clay, left two daughters and a young son; he cries, wants breast milk; refuses coconut, sugar reeds; stops crying when the sisters make a ball from the core of a sago palm tree and start throwing it over; The sky goes down to see, the ball sticks to the sky, turns into the moon; the spots are dirt, held by the sisters and stuck to the ball]: Becker 1971, No. 20:397-398; yatmul [Labu's husband and wife Tuma kept the moon in the kitchen pot; their son Toka and daughter Raika did not know it; parents were leaving warned not to open the pot; one day, the children lifted the lid and the moon swam outside and ended up on top of a palm tree, then rose to heaven; when the parents returned, the children were sleeping and their parents killed them, and the bodies were burned; thanks to these children, there is a moon]: Slone 2009:114; Tumleo [parents prepared sago, put them in a pot, the children (these are two sisters) saw that pieces of sago became the moon; parents left they tell me not to lose the moon; the sisters throw it to each other, the evil spirit of a woman who comes up catches the moon, lets it go to the sky, says that let it shine for everyone]: Schultze 1911, No. 1:39-41; kwanga [ a man and a woman look for the moon, go from village to village, find people who kept it in a bundle of leaves; while parents in the garden, who come ask the children to bring a parcel, release the moon; she jumps on a small tree, then a tall tree, then into the sky]: Obrist van Eeuwijk 1992:67; pondoma [one person had the moon and used it as a lantern; held it in a bamboo vessel; thanks to this lantern, a man caught more pigs than others; one day he went to a party, and his wife was on her period, she stayed at home; her husband forbade her to talk to anyone; her husband's friend came and told Get up from the bamboo on which she was sitting; took the moon and carried it away; began to kill pigs, but did not allow the moon to drink their blood as it should; the moon jumped out, climbed the vine onto the tree, and then found itself in the sky; dark spots on the moon are the mark of a bow strike that man inflicted while trying to hold the moon]: Slone 2009:44-46; bogajim [the woman owned fire, did not give it to anyone; the boys waited for her they came out, went into her hut, lifted the lid of the pot; from there the moon came out, first went up to the roof of the house, then to the tree, from there to the sky; the boy tried to grab her with dirty hands, so there were spots on the moon]: Hagen 1899:288 (retelling in Dixon 1916:112); Kire [man baked sago, put baked sago balls next to him, they climbed the vine, turned into the moon]: Höltker 1962:106; delta Purari [in many ravi, white-painted discs from the core of a palm tree, called the "moon", are nailed to the pillars for decoration; the first one was owned by two women, lighting them up at night; Iko's hero came with of the West, took such a disc, threw it into the sky, it became the Month (male)]: Williams 1924:231; Manus [a Nimei man and a Niwong woman swim in the sea; decide to create land; grab a floating trunk trees, it turns into earth; they create vegetation on the ground; they create two mushrooms, throw them into the sky; abandoned by a man became the Month thrown by a woman by the Sun]: Meier 1907, No. 2:646.