μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Sun and moon placed in top of tree. Hero makes the sun and moon and fastens them to the top of the "World Tree" (cf. A652), but they give no light at first.

Mythological motifs. · Cosmogony and cosmology. · The heavens. · The sun. · Creation of the sun. · view the constellation · filed as A714.2

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Filed under Sun from object thrown into sky.

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Sun and moon placed for eyes in the sky Sun from fire flung into sky Sun and moon metal mirrors in sky Sun as grindstone full of fire Sun and moon as spangle which falls from creator's forehead into his own urine Sun and moon as eyes of Rama which he tore out after his brother's death Wooden circles that were the sun and moon animated after human sacrifice of blood

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