Each of sun brothers works for a month and plays for the other eleven; were they to work all together, the world would be burned up by the heat

Motif

Each of sun brothers works for a month and plays for the other eleven; were they to work all together, the world would be burned up by the heat.

Mythological motifs. · Cosmogony and cosmology. · The heavens. · The sun. · Nature and condition of the sun. · view the constellation · filed as A739.3

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

IndiaThompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Nature and condition of the sun – miscellaneous.

Filed beside it

Sun at the edge of the sky War with the sun Reason for variations in seasonal heat of sun Why the sun is red Sun sets and refuses to rise: must be coaxed back from underworld Sun's all-seeing eye Sun as caretaker of the poor Sun has weapons of iron to repel enemies

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