μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 6references

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.

  • Icel.MacCulloch Eddic 198
  • BabylonianSpence 236
  • JewishNeuman
  • IndiaThompson-Balys.
  • general *Helm Altgermanische Religionsgeschichte I 178, 256
  • general Cook Zeus I 205ff. Greek: Fox 243, cf. A722.1., Grote I 313
Within the index

Filed under Nature and condition of the sun.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Charioteer of the sun. Sun drives his horses and chariot across skyThe 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
Filed beside it
Formerly seven sunsFormerly great heat of sun causes distress to mankindSun kept in boxSun's night journey. Around or under the earthBoat of the sunMan controls rising and setting of sunDaily course of sun across skyRaising the sun. Originally low, it is raised little by little by conjurorsSun caught in snareSun as king of sky and earthThe sun's animalsHeat and light of the sunSun hidesPursuit of sun by moonSun as human beingCauses of eclipses (sun or moon)
Travels with
Sun's night journey in golden goblet. Helios' chariot is conveyed eastward at night in a golden goblet (or bed)

wander