Sun and moon as brothers

Motif

Sun and moon as brothers.

Mythological motifs. · Cosmogony and cosmology. · The heavens. · The sun. · Nature and condition of the sun. · view the constellation · filed as A736.3

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Filed across the traditions

N. Am. Indian (Klikitat) Jacobs Northwest Sahaptin Texts 16
S. Am. Indian (Guarani) Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 93, (Chiriguano): Métraux ibid. 484
general (Guaporé River): Lévi-Strauss ibid. 379.

Within the index

Filed under Sun as human being.

3 finer motifs beneath it

Sun and moon as twin brothers Sun and moon brothers: sun clever, moon stupid Sun and his brother rise and set alternately

Filed beside it

Sun and moon as man and woman Sun as woman 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 Contest between sun and moon

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