μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 9references

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. – Indonesian: Dixon 177
  • Australianibid. 275
  • NavahoAlexander N. Am. 166ff.
  • QuileuteFarrand JAFL XXXII 254f.
  • SinkyoneKroeber JAFL XXXII 346f.
  • TahltanTeit JAFL XXXII 205. – Inca: Alexander Lat. Am. 240
  • Africa (Luba)Donohugh Africa V 180.
  • general *Rühle Sonne und Mond im primitiven Mythus (Tübingen, 1925). Irish myth: Cross
  • general Hopi: ibid. 205
Within the index
9 finer motifs beneath it
Sun as man who left earth. Man, usually of supernatural birth, ascends to the sky and becomes the sunSun as fire rekindled every morningSun and moon from caveSun from object thrown into skySun born of first coupleDispute at creation of sun. God and devil discuss creation. God plans two suns; devil persuades him to create only oneHero makes sun and moon from tree and sends them alternately into skySun from transformationCreation of sun – miscellaneous
Travels with
Creation of the moon. (Cf. A710 to A719, where many of the motifs refer to the moon)

wander