μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Shooting stars are star-dung.

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. · The planets (comets, etc.). · view the constellation · filed as A788.4

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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
  • S. Am. Indian (Toba)Métraux MAFLS XL 624.
Within the index

Filed under Origin of meteors.

Filed beside it
Falling stars as pieces of the moonShooting star one that has come down to grazeShooting stars spirits coming down to earth to make woman pregnantShooting stars are unfaithful wives

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