Why the sun is red.
Mythological motifs. · Cosmogony and cosmology. · The heavens. · The sun. · Nature and condition of the sun. · view the constellation · filed as A739.5
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
- Literary CrystallizationThe Prophetic Books of William Blake (Sampson's Oxford Blake), Europe: a Prophecy
- Literary CrystallizationThe Vision; or, Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, Purgatory 4
- ReferenceThe Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged), Chapter VV. The Magical Control of the Weather
- ReferenceThe Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged), Chapter XXXIXXXI. Adonis in Cyprus
- IndicThe Mahābhārata, Book 15, Section XXXIX
Scholars’ trail — 2references
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
- general Africa (Kamerun): Mansfield 235.