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Motif

Pursuit of sun by moon.

Mythological motifs. · Cosmogony and cosmology. · The heavens. · The sun. · Nature and condition of the sun. · view the constellation · filed as A735

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“Gradually both were lifted up and continued their course in the sky, the sister being transformed into the sun, the brother into the moon.® Whenever the new moon first appears she sings: Aningaga tapika, takirn tapika qaumidjatedlirpoq; qaumatitaudle. Aningaga tapika, tikipoq tapika. (My brother up there, the moon up there begins to shine; he will be bright. My brother up there, he is coming up there.)”

Tales of the North American Indians, Tale 2 · served from our shelf  receiptuncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan

Attested across traditions
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.

  • AztecAlexander Lat. Am. 89
  • N. Am. Indian*Thompson Tales 274 n. 9. Philippine (Tinguian): Cole 189
  • AfricanFrobenius Atlantis XII 181, (Fang): Einstein 34, Trilles 173, (Dahomé): Einstein 30.
Within the index

Filed under Nature and condition of the sun.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Moon tied to sun so that when sun sinks moon is dragged up to light earthSun and moon pursued by dark planet in black 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 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 caught in snareSun as king of sky and earthThe sun's animalsHeat and light of the sunSun hidesSun as human beingCauses of eclipses (sun or moon)
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Moon as a personTell-tale hand-mark. Clandestine lover is identified by paint marks left on his skin by his mistressBrother-sister incest

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