Sun sets and refuses to rise: must be coaxed back from underworld

Motif

Sun sets and refuses to rise: must be coaxed back from underworld.

Mythological motifs. · Cosmogony and cosmology. · The heavens. · The sun. · Nature and condition of the sun. · view the constellation · filed as A739.6

Scholars’ trail — 1 reference (open)

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.

India Thompson-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 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 Why the sun is red Sun's all-seeing eye Sun as caretaker of the poor Sun has weapons of iron to repel enemies

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