μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

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

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

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Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

  • general Dh I 128ff.
  • general cf. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 498.
Within the index

Filed under Creation of the sun.

1 finer motif beneath it
Four suns at first: culture hero shoots three down
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 from object thrown into skySun born of first coupleHero makes sun and moon from tree and sends them alternately into skySun from transformationCreation of sun – miscellaneous

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