Sun as man who left earth. Man, usually of supernatural birth, ascends to the sky and becomes the sun.
Mythological motifs. · Cosmogony and cosmology. · The heavens. · The sun. · Creation of the sun. · view the constellation · filed as A711
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 7references
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
- BushmanBleek and Lloyd 45
- Gold CoastBarker and Sinclair 97 No. 18
- EkoiTalbot 357, 359
- TuamotuStimson MS (T-g 3/191)
- S. Am. Indian (Eastern Brazil)Lowie BBAE CXLIII (1) 434, (Guarayú): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 147, (Kaigua): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 138ff., (Manasi): Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 393, (Chiriguano): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 122, 158–165, (Guaporé River): Lévi-Strauss BBAE CXLIII (3) 379.
- general British New Guinea: Dixon 113