Sun-snarer: burnt mantle. A boy is angered because the sun burned his mantle. He makes a snare and catches the sun and delays him so that everything is burning up. A mouse finally gnaws the snare in two

Motif

Sun-snarer: burnt mantle. A boy is angered because the sun burned his mantle. He makes a snare and catches the sun and delays him so that everything is burning up. A mouse finally gnaws the snare in two.

Mythological motifs. · Cosmogony and cosmology. · The heavens. · The sun. · Nature and condition of the sun. · view the constellation · filed as A728.1

Attested across traditions

North American Indigenous Tales of the North American Indians , Tale 15 receipt

Filed across the traditions

American Indian *Thompson Tales 290 n. 65. Cf. Luomala.

Within the index

Filed under Sun caught in snare.

Filed beside it

Sun-snarer: fast sun. The sun goes too fast to dry clothing. The hero snares the sun's legs with a rope as he is climbing up from the underworld. He releases the sun upon the promise to go more slowly Sun visits earth in form of black bull, caught by man, thus causing night Sun and moon carried through sky by animals. Speed depends upon hour and season

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