μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 8references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

  • Icel.De la Saussaye 344
  • JewishNeuman
  • KoreanZong in-Sob 11 No. 4
  • HinduKeith 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 moonEclipse caused by monster devouring sun or moonCause of eclipses: mother's curse laid upon her third sonToad causes eclipses of the sunGhosts of the sun's children return to cause eclipseMoon's eclipse caused by moon's interfering between attacker and person attackedEclipses caused by animal hiding sun behind his bodyEclipses from quarrels between moon and sunEclipses when sun smears his face on account of mourningEclipse as punishment by deityEclipses because sun cannot endure tragic happenings of historyPartial eclipses because of ailments of sun or moon
Filed beside it
Formerly seven sunsFormerly great heat of sun causes distress to mankindSun kept in boxSun's night journey. Around or under the earthBoat of the sunChariot of the sunMan controls rising and setting of sunDaily course of sun across skyRaising the sun. Originally low, it is raised little by little by conjurorsSun caught in snareSun as king of sky and earthThe sun's animalsHeat and light of the sunSun hidesPursuit of sun by moonSun as human being
Travels with
Eclipse of sun at important historical events. (Cf. A737.)

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