A35C. Scratches and wounds on the face of the moon .10.12.25.29.30.33.74.

Moon spots are scratches and wounds on the character's face.

Bushmen, Hottentots, Hausa, Tsou, Atayal, Tabasarans, Tajiks, Shugnans, Bartangans, Rushans, Ishkashim, Wakhans, Kazakhs, Karakalpaks, Puelches, Northern Tehuelches, Yagans.

SW Africa. Bushmen: Kotlyar 1983, No. 16 [Moon: Let people like me die and be reborn; Hare: the deceased smells bad, let him die forever; the moon split the Hare's lip with an ax, the Hare scratched her face, traces remain], 17 [~16]: 33, 33-34; hottentots [(many versions in different groups); main ones: 1) The moon sends Chameleon to say that as it revives, people will come to life after death; The chameleon forgot what to say, came back; the Moon sent the Hare; he also forgot and said that people should die; the Moon cut the Hare's lip; 2) The moon sent an insect to say that humans should be reborn as she; The hare intercepted the message, told people they should die like himself; The hare scratched the moon's face, traces remain; 3) Zoekoab sent the Hare to say that humans will revive like the Moon; The Hare tried to send Tick with a distorted message; he refused, so he ran himself and said that people should die for good]: Abrahamsson 1951:28-30.

West Africa. House [The month sent the Hare to say that a person should be like a Month dying in the morning and reviving in the evening; the Hare said that people should die forever; the Month wanted to hit with an ax on the head, but only cut his upper lip; The hare scratched the face of the Month, the traces are still visible; ran away and still runs]: Abrahamsson 1951:7-8.

Taiwan - Philippines. Tsou: Nevsky 1935:64 [the sky was low, two suns were shining, people were dying from the heat; Oazymy hit one sun with an arrow; his blood became like a sea, the sky rose, both suns disappeared; the second sun began to come out first briefly, then as it is now; the wounded sun became the moon; the blackness in its center was the place where the arrow hit], 66 [the moon was close, its light and heat were strong; the bird oayim, when he was human, shot at the moon, it lost its luster; dark spots are the mark of a wound]; atayal (Maboala) [when one sun set in the west, the other rose in the east, was unbearable heat; three young men were sent to kill one sun; halfway through, they grew old; one came back to ask for help; sent the other three, putting a boy on their shoulders; they planted oranges along the way , sowed millet; found those two old men who died soon; three of the second group also grew old and died, but the boys became adults, reached sunrise, killed the rising sun with an arrow; one the blood of the sun flowed, he died from it; the wounded sun became the moon; the spots on it were the trail of an arrow; the stars arose from drops of solar blood; on the way back, two heroes ate the fruits they had planted, returned old people]: Ho 1967, No. 1:210-211.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Tabasarans [wounds sustained in the battle of the gods are visible on the moon]: Seferbekov 2000:7.

Iran - Central Asia. Tajiks (Samarkand District) [the sun and moon were sisters, both very beautiful and jealous of each other; when the moon told the sun that it was more beautiful than her, she cut her sister's face with a dagger and ran away; the face of the moon was covered with blood; from that time on, the sisters have become enemies and do not see each other]: Amonov 196:389; the Shugnans [The Moon knew that the Sun was her brother, but the Sun did not know about it; they went to heaven We walked in the morning and together until the evening; the Sun falls in love with the Moon, one day intends to take possession of it by force; the Moon breaks out of the hands of the Sun and, offended, stops communicating with it, decides to walk only in the night; with annoyance scratched her face, scratches remained (spots)]: Bogsho Lashkarbekov, personal message, 2005; Bartangans [like the Shugnans; the Moon did not scratch itself, it was the Sun that scratched the face of the Moon, traces What we see now]: Bogsho Lashkarbekov, personal report, 2005; Vakhans [like the Shugnans; the Sun after that incident pursues the Moon and chases it, cannot catch up; the Moon goes around all 12 in a month zodiac signs, and the Sun makes this journey only in a year]: Bogsho Lashkarbekov, personal report, 2005; Shugnans, Vakhans, Rushans, Ishkashim (i.e. Ismailis) [spots on the moon mean crying and shredding the face of the moon on the day of the death of Imams Hasan and Hussein]: Yusufbekov 2009.

Turkestan. Kazakhs: Abishev 1949 (the author heard as a child) [The Moon and the Sun were beautiful women, envied each other's beauty; the Sun scratched the face of the moon, leaving spots on it]: 23; Sidelnikov 1962 [ collected by the author; var. in Turgai Gazeta 1898, No. 40; the star of Omir-Zaya (evening Venus) shone all night; quarreled with her rival Moon, scratched her face, her scars remained; the gods condemned O. appear in the sky for a short time in the evening when there is no Sun, Moon, or other stars]: 266; Karakalpaks [The sun was the daughter of the bay; the Month was the husband of the Sun, the son of another bai; during a quarrel Sun scratched the face of the Month, then they were ashamed to show themselves to people; but people themselves asked the Sun to continue to shine; husband and wife no longer see each other, but continue to warm and illuminate the ground]: Alimbetov 2014b: 28.

The Southern Cone. Puelche [The Sun and the Moon are brothers; two vultures stole their son from the Sun; the Sun took the form of a dead guanaco; when the birds arrived, it grabbed one; the Month became dead Nanda, moved earlier time, the birds flew away; the Sun took the son's bones out of the belly of the first bird, but two were in the stomach of the one that flew away and the son could not be resurrected; before rising to heaven, the Sun told the Month to scream; then from Battleships will come out, they can be hunted; the Month has shouted twice, there are too many battleships, they have scratched the Month's face; the spots are still visible]: Lehmann-Nitsche 1919:183-184; northern Tehuelche [The Sun and the Moon (the informant replied that they are not spouses) began to fight for the right to become the sun and shine during the day; the Sun said that the Moon is a woman, should shine at night; they fought for three days, the Sun She was upstairs every time; Luna said that now he scratched her face, she was unhappy, she would have to be the Moon since she was a woman]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1984b, No. 4:18; yagans [Hanukha is the Moon; her only handsome son died, became a star; she scratched her face, blood stains on the moon disk]: Gusinde 1937:1152-1156; Wilbert 1978, No. 5:25.