μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Mountain where sun goes through.

Mythological motifs. · Cosmogony and cosmology. · The heavens. · The sun. · Nature and condition of the sun. · view the constellation · filed as A722.7

Filed across the traditions
  • Babylonian Jensen Gilgamesch Epos IX 37.
Within the index

Filed under Sun's night journey. Around or under the earth.

1 finer motif beneath it
Sun at night enters fissure between sky and earth
Filed beside it
Sun's night journey in golden goblet. Helios' chariot is conveyed eastward at night in a golden goblet (or bed) Sun's night journey with reversed face. It returns from west to east by the same way that it came, but it turns its light side to the sky and leaves the earth in darkness Sun's night journey: in land of dead Sun at night closes doors. In evening goes home and shuts doors and windows Sun at night lowers arm. The sun, a man, lies with arm uplifted. The shining comes from his armpits. When his arm is lowered the shining ceases Sun hidden at night because afraid to wander Sun sits on back of a male buffalo At dawn sun comes to play with the moon Sun and moon to remain half their time in underworld Sun worships God by night Visible sun is the "pet" of real sun Sun is man during day

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