μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 6references

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.

  • JewishNeuman
  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • ChineseWerner 133, Eberhard FFC CXX 113. – African: Werner African 232, (Fang): Trilles 171f.
  • general *Fb. "sol" III 457b. – Lettish: Gray 321
  • general Hatt Asiatic Influences 74f. – Tlingit: Alexander N. Am. 257
  • general S. Am. Indian (Fuegian): Alexander Lat. Am. 342, (Jivaro): Stewart-Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 627, Métraux RMLP XXXIII 129, (Aymara): Tschopik BBAE CXLIII (2) 571, (Chibcha): Kroeber ibid. 908.
Within the index

Filed under Sun and moon as man and woman.

3 finer motifs beneath it
Sun and moon quarrel when sun eats up all their children but twoMoon, sun are sister and brother, wife and husbandCreator separates sun and moon to prevent birth of more stars
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 moonSun-brother and moon-sisterSun and moon as lovers. (Cf. A736.1.1.)

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