Four suns at first: culture hero shoots three down

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Four suns at first: culture hero shoots three down.

Mythological motifs. · Cosmogony and cosmology. · The heavens. · The sun. · Creation of the sun. · view the constellation · filed as A716.1

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SiberianHolmberg Siberian 420.

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Filed under Dispute at creation of sun. God and devil discuss creation. God plans two suns; devil persuades him to create only one.

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