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October 20, 1923. Dr. G. Róheim: The water carriers in the moon. The legend of the water carriers in the moon has been explained as the reproduction of a dream occasioned by thirst. The various strata in those dreams which wake the sleeper were discussed and the motif of the work of the Danaids in the moon was traced to onanistic dreams. The maternal significance of the moon originates in the representation of repressed unconscious material by the 'organic-unconscious.'