Contest between sun and moon

Motif

Contest between sun and moon.

Mythological motifs. · Cosmogony and cosmology. · The heavens. · The sun. · Nature and condition of the sun. · view the constellation · filed as A736.11

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Depth Commentary Primitive Culture: Researches into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art, and Custom , Chapter XVII

Filed across the traditions

Chinese Eberhard 219.

Within the index

Filed under Sun as human being.

Filed beside it

Sun and moon as man and woman Sun as woman Sun and moon as brothers Sun and moon as sisters, daughters of sky-god Children of the sun Sun and moon as friends Sun's affection for human girl rouses moon's jealousy Original moon changed into sun and sun into moon Sun cursed by moon Human son of sun

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