Mots'
Andi · deity · Andi traditional religion; continuing · Recorded classification
The moon is imagined as a youth, the brother of the sun and the reckoner of the months for the mountain calendar. The blemishes on his disc are read as the enduring stain of a domestic quarrel in the sky, when his sister struck his face; some tellings make him the pursuer and the sun the pursued. Like the sun he is periodically imperilled by the sky-dragon, whose swallowing of the moon was answered on earth with clamour to compel the beast to loose its prey.
Domains
- moon
- calendar
Powers
- light the night and mark the months
Relations
- sibling: Baq'Brother of the sun in the myth of the lunar markings.Халидова М. Р. Мифологический и историко-героический эпос народов Дагестана. Махачкала, 1992. (primary)
- enemy: AzhdahaLunar eclipse ascribed to the dragon devouring the moon.Сефербеков Р. И. Пантеон языческих божеств народов Дагестана. Махачкала, 2009. (secondary)
Sources
- The moon, personified as a young man and younger sibling of the sun; the spots on his face are the mark of the sun's blow, and lunar eclipse is the dragon swallowing him.: Халидова М. Р. Мифологический и историко-героический эпос народов Дагестана. Махачкала, 1992. (primary)