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Slavic folk song makes the Sun and the Moon a married couple, the stars their children, and the waning of the Moon a punishment for straying.

The gender assignment flips between regions — in some traditions the Moon is the bald old husband and in others the young wife — which is a good illustration of how unfixed these things are. Thunder in the songs is usually a god intervening in the marriage, and the phases are the visible consequence of a domestic row.

Tradition: Slavic folk song; recorded across the Russian, Ukrainian and Balkan traditions · checked Sep 2026

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Slavic folk song makes the Sun and the Moon a married couple, the stars their children, and the waning of the Moon a punishment for straying.

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Slavic folk song makes the Sun and the Moon a married couple, the stars their children, and the waning of the Moon a punishment for straying.

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