Sun sister and moon brother. Brother visits sister at night. She marks him to identify him. He flees and she follows with flaming brand. She is sun and he the moon

Motif

Sun sister and moon brother. Brother visits sister at night. She marks him to identify him. He flees and she follows with flaming brand. She is sun and he the moon.

Mythological motifs. · Cosmogony and cosmology. · The heavens. · The sun. · Nature and condition of the sun. · view the constellation · filed as A736.1.1

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In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Literary CrystallizationThe Prophetic Books of William Blake (Sampson's Oxford Blake), Tiriel

Scholars’ trail — 8references

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.

LappishFriis Lappisk Mythologi 79
GermanHdwb. d. deutschen Aberglaubens I 642, II 1511
IndiaThompson-Balys
KoreanZong in-Sob 10 No. 3. – Eskimo: *Thompson Tales 273 note 6
S. Am. Indian (Chaco)Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 393, (Witoto, Shipaya, Canelo, Warrau, Arawak): Lowie BBAE CXLIII (3) 54
general *Rank Das Inzestmotiv 446ff.
general Frazer Ovid III 31. – Icel.: MacCulloch Eddic 196
general African (Baluga): Einstein 176.

Within the index

Filed under Sun and moon as man and woman.

Filed beside it

Sun-brother and moon-sister Sun and moon as lovers. (Cf. A736.1.1.)Sun and moon married

Travels with

Sun and moon as lovers. (Cf. A736.1.1.)

wander