μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
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.

  • AfricanFrobenius 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 twoSun-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 slowlySun visits earth in form of black bull, caught by man, thus causing nightSun and moon carried through sky by animals. Speed depends upon hour and season
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 sunChariot 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 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
Beams of light are snares with which sun is tied to earth. Cf. A728

wander