μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 5references

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.

  • BushmanBleek and Lloyd 54
  • Australianibid 275.
  • general Pelew Is. (Micronesia): Dixon 253
  • general Cook Group: ibid. 37
  • general Admiralty Is., Woodlark Is.: ibid 112
Within the index

Filed under Creation of the sun.

8 finer motifs beneath it
Sun and moon placed for eyes in the skySun 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 firstSun from fire flung into skySun and moon metal mirrors in skySun as grindstone full of fireSun and moon as spangle which falls from creator's forehead into his own urineSun and moon as eyes of Rama which he tore out after his brother's deathWooden circles that were the sun and moon animated after human sacrifice of blood
Filed beside 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 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

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