Why the sun is red

Motif

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

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Literary Crystallization The Prophetic Books of William Blake (Sampson's Oxford Blake) , Europe: a Prophecy
Literary Crystallization The Vision; or, Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise , Purgatory 4
Reference The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged) , Chapter V V. The Magical Control of the Weather
Reference The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged) , Chapter XXXI XXXI. Adonis in Cyprus
Indic The Mahābhārata , Book 15, Section XXXIX

Filed across the traditions

India Thompson-Balys
general Africa (Kamerun): Mansfield 235.

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 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 Reason for variations in seasonal heat of sun 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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