μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Sun caught in snare.

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

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Filed across the traditions
  • African Frobenius Atlantis V 38, 70f., XII 160, 185f.
  • general Luomala Oceanic, American Indian, and African Myths of Snaring the Sun (BMB No. 168 [Honolulu, 1940])
  • general *Dh III 120ff. India: Thompson-Balys
Within the index

Filed under Nature and condition of the sun.

4 finer motifs beneath it
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 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
Filed beside it
Formerly seven suns Formerly great heat of sun causes distress to mankind Sun kept in box Sun's night journey. Around or under the earth Boat of the sun Chariot of the sun Man controls rising and setting of sun Daily course of sun across sky Raising the sun. Originally low, it is raised little by little by conjurors Sun as king of sky and earth The sun's animals Heat and light of the sun Sun hides Pursuit of sun by moon Sun as human being Causes of eclipses (sun or moon)
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Beams of light are snares with which sun is tied to earth. Cf. A728

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