Stars as children of sun eaten by their father. Hence no stars in the day

Motif

Stars as children of sun eaten by their father. Hence no stars in the day.

Mythological motifs. · Cosmogony and cosmology. · The heavens. · The stars. Note: the question of implicit meanings assumed by the proponents of "astralmythology" is not discussed here; only explicit statements in original sources are considered. · Creation and condition of the stars. · view the constellation · filed as A764.1.1

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Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

Africa (Fang)Trilles 172.
general Frazer Ovid III 205
general Hatt Asiatic Influences 74f. – India: Thompson-Balys

Within the index

Filed under Stars as children of the moon. Cook Zeus I 523 n. 6.

Filed beside it

Sun eats all his own children except morning star, while moon keeps all her children in hiding Stars as children of sun and moon

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