A32c1. A predatory beast on the moon.
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The lunar disk shows the figure or print of a predatory mammal (fox, wolf, dog, coyote, jaguar, lion). See motif A34.
Babylonia [man and lion], fox [dog], Serbs [dog head], Greeks [lion], Greek Cypriots [lion and dragon], Karachays [two dogs and a boy], Bashkirs [wolf following octa-legged roe deer, thompson [coyote], cous [dog], vilyote [dog], chilula [dog], pomo (porridge) [coyote], luiseño [coyote], juaneño [coyote], cahuilla [coyote], northern payute (Serprise) Valley) [coyote, wolf, frog, snake], chemeuevi [coyote], diegueño [coyote], yuma [coyote], cocopa [coyote], paypai [coyote], maricopa [coyote], pima [coyote], seri [coyote], huichol [coyote], koote ra [ coyote], tequistlateca [coyote], Lambayeque [fox], mochica [monster that looks like a jaguar and fox], central (?) Peru coast [fox?] , yuracare [jaguar], chiriguano [jaguar].
Western Asia. Babylonia [(drawing on a Seleucid plaque from Uruk): Beaulier 1999 [image of a lunar disk showing a male Nabu character defeating a lion; there is also a text: "Tiamat is seen in the sun, Marduk is visible on the moon"; the forest in Babylonia is functionally similar to Tiamat and all the forces of chaos]: 92-94; Horowits et al. 2018 [depicts the lunar disk in the Taurus constellation; right-facing men in profile holds a lion's back leg with his left hand, he has a club in his right hand; there is a fragment of text that says that Marduk is inside the sun, and (his son) Nabu is inside the moon, the dagger is over the lion in his hand..]: 98-101, fig. 10 and 11.
China - Korea. Lisa: Bystrov et al. 1962 (the fox of China) [Asu's husband is ill, almost paralyzed; to prevent him from being killed by tax collectors, Asu takes him to the mountains, leaving him food; he has run out of food; he sees him reaching for a snake killed him; another snake revived the first with leaf juice; a man rubbed himself with this juice, recovered; found his wife sick, cured her too; becomes a famous healer; forbids his wife to open a chest with with leaves; she opened, the sun's rays fell on the leaves, ate half, so the sun was immortal; the moon stole the other half in the evening; her husband made a ladder out of hemp, climbed to the moon; told Asa to wet the end the stairs with water; he almost climbed, his dog had already jumped to the moon; Asu forgot to pour cold water on the stairs at noon, poured cold water in the evening, not warm; she broke off, her husband fell and crashed; the dog remained there are eclipses on the moon when it gnaws]: 226-231; Zapadova 1977 (Burma's fox) [the sky was close, people poked their poles at it to attract the removal of spirits and ask for mercy; the spirits were tired of it, they went higher; bears attacked the ground; people built a staircase to the moon, put two lamps and two bowls of warm water at the base as a sign of reverence for spirits; the man got up and brought a moon dog from the moon, she killed most of the bears; the man climbed to return the dog to the moon again; at this time, the girl watching the lamps fell asleep; when she woke up, the water in the bowls cooled down, she splashed it out, the bay lamps; the guardian spirit threw away the stairs, the man fell, the dog remained on the moon; the moon moved away, decided not to help people anymore; the dog sees if everything on earth is OK; so that the moonlight does not interferes, throws a bag on the moon, an eclipse occurs; people shoot with guns and shout so that the dog knows they remember it]: 157-159; Dessaint, Ngwâma 1994 [the leper was moved to a cave; there he killed The boa constrictor, was going to cook; the female boa constrictor knocked over the cauldron, glued together the bark of a tree and revived her husband's body, the boas crawled away; with the same bark, the man recovered from leprosy, returned to his family; on the way he revived a long-dead black dog; in the village he revived the deceased; hid the bark, telling his wife to watch her and beware of the Month, which comes down to drink from the river and can steal the bark; the wife was distracted, the children saw how the Month took the bark away; the man made a giant candle, climbed it to the moon, telling his wife to water the candle with cold water three times a day; it turned out that his arm was twice short of the length of his arm; the dog jumped on the moon; it has been biting it since then; you have to make noise during an eclipse; if a wedding is canceled]: 230-232.
The Balkans. Serbs: Gura 2006 [dog head on the moon]: 468; Janković 1951 [dog visible on the moon]: 108; Greeks [shadows on the month - lion sitting there (Naxos)]: Czocha 2009:186; Greek Cypriots [ there is a dragon on the moon that fights a lion; a lunar eclipse (including the capture of the moon) occurs when the dragon conquers and grabs the moon; to scare the dragon and force it to release the moon, peasants knocked on tins (Cyprus)]: Czocha 2009:186-187
Caucasus - Western Asia. Karachays [there are two dogs and a boy on the moon; the boy keeps them apart, otherwise they will fight]: Pröhle 1909, No. 7a: 266 (retelling in Dzhurtubayev 1991:79; 2007:372).
Volga - Perm. Bashkirs [Trout asks the Old Man how to escape from Pike - Move to a mountain river; Capercaillie to escape from the Berkut - Live not in the mountains, but in the forest; two Roe Deer run away from the Wolf ; The old man ties them with his backs - When one runs, let the other rest; the running Roe Deer jumped to the moon, the Wolf behind her; they always run there; the beast in front (double Roe Deer) has eight legs; (zap. 1963; fragment of the West at the end of the 19th century. Lossievsky)]: Barag 1987, No. 3:32-33; Nadrshina 1985, No. 2:9-10.
The coast is the Plateau. Thompson [Coyote seen on the moon]: Ray 1942, No. 4355:189; cous [the hero makes himself a dog by filling the animal's skin with flint; dogs rise into the air when fighting; the flintlock dog wins]: Jacobs 1940, No. 25 [an ogre dog kills four brothers one by one; the fifth makes a flint dog (taking a seal skin); he is visible on the moon, holding another dog's paw in his teeth], 3 [otter skin; both dogs are visible on the moon] : 175-181, 241; Frachtenberg 1913, No. 20 [zap. Saint Clair; one person has a strong dog, the other makes a dog out of gravel cat skin (fur-seal); dogs fight, rise to the sky, a cat's skin dog is visible on the moon, he nibbles on it (whose?) arms, hips]: 33; Saint Clair 1909a, No. 12 [a dog made of graveled cat skin is visible on the moon; he tears another dog apart, throws them down to the ground]: 40.
California. Villote, chilula, synkyon [dog on the moon]: Driver 1939:344; pomo (porridge) [a coyote is visible on the moon; his beloved frog is sad and croaks at him]: Martina Morgan, member of the Kashai community, personal report, May 26, 2017.
The Big Pool. Northern Payute (Surprise Valley) [say there is a coyote, wolf, frog, rattlesnake on the moon]: Kelly 1932:200; chemewevi [coyote visible on the moon]: Drucker 1937a:27.
The Great Southwest. A coyote. Diegueño [on the moon coyote]: Drucker 1937a:27; mojave [jumped to the moon and stayed there]: Kroeber 1972, No. 16b: 85-86; yuma [copulates with his daughter, the moon, takes her to heaven] : Harrington 1908:339; cocopa [died having sex with the moon and stayed on it]: Gifford 1933:308; maricopa [1) Coyote wanted to marry a female moon, she refused; 2) Coyote stole something; jumped to the moon and stayed there]: Spier 1933:146; paypai (aquaala) [on the moon coyote]: Drucker 1941:164; pima [coyote on the moon, no explanation why]: Drucker 1900:164; Russel 1908:252; seri [Coyote tried to catch ducks, jumped, they took off, he fell to the moon, where he has been visible ever since]: Kroeber 1931, No. 2:12; luiseño, juaneño, cahuilla [on the moon coyote]: Drucker 1937a: 27.
NW Mexico. Huichol [painting of colored threads pasted on plywood; in the upper part on the left there is a sun in the form of a radiant disc with eyes and mouth, on the right the moon is a larger disk with short rays and a silhouette facing left standing or walking coyote]: Berrin 1978:67; bark [the first ancestors gathered and fasted for five days; found a boy who was supposed to be the Sun; he was thrown into the fire; on The next day was dawn; they asked each other what the name of the Sun was; they fasted but did not know the name; only one named Rabbit said it was Heat, the Sun; they chased him, he hid in a hole; a fire was made there and it burned down; the bark is seen on the moon as part (teils) of a rabbit, part of a coyote]: Preuβ 1912, No. 1:143.
Mesoamerica Tequistlateca [the coyote was the moon girl's dog, now he's on the moon]: Carrasco 1960:109.
The Central Andes. Lambayeque Valley [the young man sees the reflection of the moon in the water; it turns into a beautiful woman; he tries to take possession of it, but she disappears; the Sun punishes him by sealing it forever to the face of the Moon, and turning the earth into a fox; foxes hide in holes from the sun, go out at night to look at the moon]: Toro Montalvo 1989:640-641; northern coast of Peru (images on mochica vessels) [monster with jaguar features /foxes]: Disselhoff 1951, fig.4 [mochica I-III; relief on a vessel with a black surface; a jaguar-like monster with stepped ridges on its head and tail ("requai beast") leaning over his back a naked man with an erected phallus; a conical cap on the man's head; an eight-pointed star nearby; the scene is placed inside a half-sickle, probably marking the moon; the shape of a vessel with a dedicated the throat is unusual for mochica; the exact origin is unknown, possibly found in one of the valleys north of Chicama]; Kutscher 1954, fig.44-48 [and other publications]; coast (or rather, the area is not specified; central?) [The fox tells Skunk he wants to go to the moon; ordinary and golden ropes hang from the moon; the Skunk agrees to climb with the Fox if he gives him gold; halfway through, a golden rope is made ordinary and set; guinea pig descends along the usual towards the Skunk, gnaws on the corn cob, touches the rope, the Skunk falls; all prickly plants grow in this place; skunks have since lived in burrows; does the fox not return to earth {stays on the moon and is visible there?}] : Herrera Gray 1963 in Toro Montalvo 1990a: 246-248
Bolivia - Guaporé. Yurakare [see motive J16; a pregnant woman goes to the Jaguars; they tell them to take out their poisonous ants and eat them; the mother of the Jaguars gives her pumpkin seeds to pretend to eat; The chief Jaguar, who has a second pair of eyes on the back of his head, notices a deception, kills a woman; the Jaguar mother finds a boy Tiree in her womb, hides her in a pot; he considers her his mother; hunts for a pack, that tells him the truth; T. kills all Jaguars except the four-eyed one; he asks trees, Sun, Stars, Moon to cover him; the Moon covers him, his silhouette is visible on the lunar disk]: Orbigny 1844:210-212; Chiriguano [Yawa-Rowi's grayish-blue (plomizo) jaguar eats the moon; it can be seen in the silhouette of moonspots]: Metraux 1932:158.