Sun and moon from breasts of mother earth. (Cf. A401.)

Motif

Sun and moon from breasts of mother earth. (Cf. A401.)

Mythological motifs. · Cosmogony and cosmology. · The heavens. · The sun. · Creation of the sun. · view the constellation · filed as A715.4

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In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Anglo-SaxonBeowulf, I
Indian / Hindu (Sanskrit epic)The Ramayan of Valmiki (Griffith verse translation), Book 6, Canto 111

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 Sun born of first couple.

Filed beside it

Sun and moon born from a woman Sun and moon born from a goddess impregnated by the wind Sun and moon born from an ogre Sun as offspring of moon Sun and moon born of lizard

Travels with

Mother Earth. The earth is conceived of as the mother of all things. (Cf. A431.1.)

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