Phaëton. Sun entrusts his chariot to another (his son) and the horses run away. The world is almost burnt up

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Phaëton. Sun entrusts his chariot to another (his son) and the horses run away. The world is almost burnt up.

Mythological motifs. · Cosmogony and cosmology. · The heavens. · The sun. · Nature and condition of the sun. · view the constellation · filed as A724.1.1

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general Krappe "Phaëthon", The Review of Religion (1944) 115–129. – Greek: *Roscher s.v. "Phaëthon", *Frazer Pausanias II 59. – N. Am. Indian: *Thompson Tales 291 n. 66.

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Filed under Charioteer of the sun. Sun drives his horses and chariot across sky.

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Coyote rides with sun Chariot of sun accompanied by angels

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