"Bridegroom like the sun and bride like the moon."

Motif

"Bridegroom like the sun and bride like the moon."

Miscellaneous groups of motifs. · Formulas. · Other formulistic motifs. · view the constellation · filed as Z62.2

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Depth CommentaryThemis: A Study of the Social Origins of Greek Religion, CHAPTER VII.

Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

Within the index

Filed under Proverbial simile.

Filed beside it

The old and the new keys. Hero marries his first sweetheart according to the proverb that the old key is better than the new. (Cf. L214.)

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