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Motif

Causes of eclipses (sun or moon).

Mythological motifs. · Cosmogony and cosmology. · The heavens. · The sun. · Nature and condition of the sun. · view the constellation · filed as A737

Filed across the traditions
  • Icel. De la Saussaye 344
  • Jewish Neuman
  • Korean Zong in-Sob 11 No. 4
  • Hindu Keith 137, 151, 192, 232f.
  • India *Thompson-Balys. – Montagnais: Alexander N. Am. 25
  • general *Hdwb. d. deutschen Aberglaubens II 1511
  • general Penzer II 81f. Estonian: Loortis Grundzüge I 153, 410ff.
  • general Mataguaya (Pampean): Alexander Lat. Am. 319.
Within the index

Filed under Nature and condition of the sun.

12 finer motifs beneath it
Origin of eclipse of moon Eclipse caused by monster devouring sun or moon Cause of eclipses: mother's curse laid upon her third son Toad causes eclipses of the sun Ghosts of the sun's children return to cause eclipse Moon's eclipse caused by moon's interfering between attacker and person attacked Eclipses caused by animal hiding sun behind his body Eclipses from quarrels between moon and sun Eclipses when sun smears his face on account of mourning Eclipse as punishment by deity Eclipses because sun cannot endure tragic happenings of history Partial eclipses because of ailments of sun or moon
Filed beside it
Formerly seven suns Formerly great heat of sun causes distress to mankind Sun kept in box Sun's night journey. Around or under the earth Boat of the sun Chariot of the sun Man controls rising and setting of sun Daily course of sun across sky Raising the sun. Originally low, it is raised little by little by conjurors Sun caught in snare Sun as king of sky and earth The sun's animals Heat and light of the sun Sun hides Pursuit of sun by moon Sun as human being
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Eclipse of sun at important historical events. (Cf. A737.)

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