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Motif

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

Mythological motifs. · Cosmogony and cosmology. · The heavens. · The sun. · Nature and condition of the sun. · view the constellation · filed as A724.1

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“He grew very quickly, and on the second day of his life he was able to walk and to talk."? After a short time he said to his mother, “I should like to see your mother and your father”; and he began to cry, making his mother feel homesick. When the Sun saw that his wife felt downcast, and that his son was longing to see his grandparents, he said, “You may return to the earth to see your parents.”

Tales of the North American Indians, Tale 16 · served from our shelf  receiptuncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan

Attested across traditions
Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

  • GreekFox 243
  • HinduPenzer I 143 n. 2, II 150ff.
  • general Howey Horse in Magic and Myth 114ff. – Icel. MacCulloch Eddic 196
Within the index

Filed under Chariot of the sun.

3 finer motifs beneath it
Coyote rides with sunPhaëton. Sun entrusts his chariot to another (his son) and the horses run away. The world is almost burnt upChariot of sun accompanied by angels
Filed beside it
The sun a golden bowl on the rim of which sits a peacock; both bowl and peacock are in a crystal box, which rests on a flying chariot

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