μῦθοι Mythoi
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

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Filed across the traditions
  • Lappish Friis Lappisk Mythologi 79
  • German Hdwb. d. deutschen Aberglaubens I 642, II 1511
  • India Thompson-Balys
  • Korean Zong 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 (Thompson’s cf.)
Sun and moon as lovers. (Cf. A736.1.1.)

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