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

Motif

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

Mythological motifs. · Cosmogony and cosmology. · The heavens. · The sun. · Nature and condition of the sun. · view the constellation · filed as A736.1.3

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In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

North American IndigenousMyths of the Cherokee, ( Josmogonic Myths — Myth 88. THE MOON AND THE THUNDERS.
ReferenceThe Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged), Chapter XXXVIIIXXXVIII. The Myth of Osiris
Literary CrystallizationMasnavi i Ma'navi: The Spiritual Couplets (abridged), Book 6, Story 9

Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

IndiaThompson-Balys. – S. Am. Indian (Amazon): Alexander Lat. Am. 306, (Caviña, Tumupasa): Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 448
African (Ekoi)Talbot 359.

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-brother and moon-sister Sun and moon married

Travels with

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

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