H722 constellation

The constellation

H722 Riddle of the day and night. (Cf. H721.1, H721.2, H721.4.)

A constellation is one motif’s neighborhood in the record — the story-shapes filed around it, the tale types that carry it, and the texts where it is witnessed, every line a receipted link. Click a motif to travel. Click a text to read it. The entry · wander

● motif ● tale type ● on the shelf ● attested

The same sky, in words

filed under

Metaphorical riddles · H720 entry

beneath it

Riddle: white brother, black sister: every morning brother kills sister; every evening sister kills brother; they never die. (Day and night.) · H722.1 entry
Riddle: black and white horses chasing each other. (Day and night.) · H722.2 entry

cross-ref

Riddle: tree with twelve branches, each with thirty leaves, black and white. Year, month, days and nights · H721.1 entry
Riddle: tree with leaves white on one side and black on other. Year made up of nights and days · H721.2 entry
Riddle: palace consisting of 8760 stones; twelve trees, thirty branches, each with black and white cluster of grapes. Year, months, days, hours · H721.4 entry