Sun and moon brothers: sun clever, moon stupid

Motif

Sun and moon brothers: sun clever, moon stupid.

Mythological motifs. · Cosmogony and cosmology. · The heavens. · The sun. · Nature and condition of the sun. · view the constellation · filed as A736.3.2

Cited in the index

general S. Am. Indian (Mataco, Chamacoco): Métraux BBAE CXLIII (1) 366, (Timbira, Sherente, Caingang, Mashachali): Lowie BBAE CXLIII (1) 397, 515.

Within the index

Filed under Sun and moon as brothers.

Filed beside it

Sun and moon as twin brothers Sun and his brother rise and set alternately

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