Sun and moon quarrel when sun eats up all their children but two

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Sun and moon quarrel when sun eats up all their children but two.

Mythological motifs. · Cosmogony and cosmology. · The heavens. · The sun. · Nature and condition of the sun. · view the constellation · filed as A736.1.4.1

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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. Cf. Africa: Meinhof 200.

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Filed under Sun and moon married.

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Moon kills sun's children

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Moon, sun are sister and brother, wife and husband Creator separates sun and moon to prevent birth of more stars

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