Sun-brother and moon-sister

Motif

Sun-brother and moon-sister.

Mythological motifs. · Cosmogony and cosmology. · The heavens. · The sun. · Nature and condition of the sun. · view the constellation · filed as A736.1.2

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Greco-Roman The Library (Bibliotheca) , BOOK I, ch. II
Greco-Roman The Library (Bibliotheca) , BOOK I, ch. VI
Greco-Roman The Library (Bibliotheca) , BOOK II, ch. V
Greco-Roman The Library (Bibliotheca) , BOOK III, ch. I
Middle Eastern The Thousand and One Nights, commonly called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments , Chapter 1

Filed across the traditions

Icel. De la Saussaye 344
India *Thompson-Balys. N. Am. Indian (Montagnais and Menominee): Alexander N. Am. 25.

Within the index

Filed under Sun and moon as man and woman.

Filed beside it

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

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Moon, sun are sister and brother, wife and husband

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