A woman has four children: sun, moon, fire, and water

Motif

A woman has four children: sun, moon, fire, and water.

Mythological motifs. · Cosmogony and cosmology. · The heavens. · Creation of the heavenly bodies. · view the constellation · filed as A700.3

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In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

IndicThe Mahābhārata, Book 13, Section CLXVIII
Hermetic / AlchemicalThe Hermetic Museum, Restored and Enlarged, Tract 19: The Three Treatises of Philalethes, II: A Brief Guide to the Celestial Ruby
ChineseMyths & Legends of China, Chapter III
Hermetic / AlchemicalThe Turba Philosophorum (Assembly of the Sages), The Eighth Dictum

Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

IndiaThompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Creation of the heavenly bodies.

Filed beside it

Heavenly bodies from objects thrown into sky. The Christ Child throws mud pies into the sky and creates sun, moon, and stars Heavenly bodies vomited up by creator Heavenly bodies created after the plant world Sun, moon, and stars forged by smith Sun and moon purchased Sun, moon, and stars nourished on fire Sun, moon, and darkness as god's three children Creation of the sky Nature of the sky Angels arrange course of heavenly bodies Origin and nature of clouds

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