Sun and moon married

Motif

Sun and moon married.

Mythological motifs. · Cosmogony and cosmology. · The heavens. · The sun. · Nature and condition of the sun. · view the constellation · filed as A736.1.4

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Depth Commentary Themis: A Study of the Social Origins of Greek Religion , CHAPTER VI.
Depth Commentary Themis: A Study of the Social Origins of Greek Religion , CHAPTER VII.
Yoruba The Yoruba-Speaking Peoples of the Slave Coast of West Africa , Chapter 15

Filed across the traditions

Jewish Neuman
India *Thompson-Balys
Chinese Werner 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 two Moon, sun are sister and brother, wife and husband Creator 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 moon Sun-brother and moon-sister Sun and moon as lovers. (Cf. A736.1.1.)

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