Causes of seasons – deities push sun back and forth at solstices

Motif

Causes of seasons – deities push sun back and forth at solstices.

Mythological motifs. · Establishment of natural order. · Determination of seasons. · view the constellation · filed as A1157

Scholars’ trail — 1 reference (open)

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

Hawaii Beckwith Myth 119.

Within the index

Filed under Determination of seasons.

Filed beside it

Establishment of times for sowing and reaping Theft of the seasons. Certain seasons are lacking. A culture hero steals the season from a monster and brings it to his people Boneless man turned over to produce seasons Seasons produced by marriage of North and South Genealogy of summer and winter Why days lengthen in spring Why days shorten in autumn: the real sun sets very early because the red cockscomb plant, used to kill his brother sun with, grows to its full height during this time

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