Yu.E. Berezkin, E.N. Duvakin

Thematic classification and distribution of folklore and mythological motifs by area

Analytical catalogue

Introduction
Bibliography
Ethnicities and habitats

A32de. Headless on the moon. [(.21.) .31.32.35.36.)]

A headless man can be seen on the lunar disk.

(Wed. Tibet is the Northeast of India. Lucy [a huge ficus (Bung) grows on the moon, the branches of which are visible in the silhouette of the spots; in the middle of the tree there is a monkey without a head; whoever sees it will die before the deadline]: Parry 1932:493).

Baltoscandia. The Western Sami [Njavvis-ene (wife of Niavis) is the daughter of the Sun, Attjis-ene (Attiis's wife) is the daughter of the Month; both husbands are killed, leaving their wives pregnant; N. is beautiful, she has a son, A. is ugly, she has a daughter; said that whoever would pick up the basket of berries first would pick up the boy; put moss in the basket, took it; during the hunger, the grown-up young man looked into the house, his mother recognized him, showed him their reflection in the water, he realized that he looked like his mother, killed A.; she has since caused cramps and pain; her deer became toads, frogs, beetles; before that, from North Wind, she gave birth to the evil Attits; he teased his month-old grandfather for The fact that it was paler than the Sun was pulled there; seen on the moon disc with a deer horn in one hand and his own head in the other (his head was cut off for his crimes)]: Billson 1918:183-187.

Volga â€" Perm. Mordva [you can't look at the moon for long; Ivan the Baptist ignored this prohibition, Shkai (supreme god) took off his head; on the moon he can be seen standing at Shkai's table without a head]: Devyatkina 1998:126.

Western Siberia. Nenets [dark spots: 1) the legs of a lunar man (irii hasava), whose head is on the other side of the lunar disk; 2) a shaman with a tambourine who flew to the moon during the camlania and stuck to her]: Khomich 1976:19.

Eastern Siberia. Vilyui Yakuts [the owners oppress an orphan girl; she goes to fetch water, asks the Moon and the Sun to pick her up; the Sun took her head, the Moon took her body; on the moon you can see a headless girl with a rocker arm on shoulders]: Popov 1949:260-261; Western Evenks (Ilimpic; Chirinda, 2007) [a big man lived on earth; he did not have a head, only shoulders; he hunted moose, ate them in the same place where he caught them; once he met a simple hunter, fed him and went to bed; a hunter stole a mitten from a big man to show his comrades; a big man woke up and found him missing; angry, flew to the moon; you can see him there, with one mitten and skis]: Duvakin 2013.