A. Mythological Motifs
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A702.8. Sky is black because once raised by means of dirty stick. Tonga: Gifford 23.
A625.2. Raising the sky.
A702.9. Sky immortal, changing skin like a snake. S. Am. Indian (Bacairi): Lévi-Strauss BBAE CXLIII (3) 348.
A703. Angels arrange course of heavenly bodies. Jewish: Neuman.
A705. Origin and nature of clouds.
A705.1. Origin of clouds. India: Thompson-Balys; Icel.: Boberg.
A705.1.1. Creator makes clouds from own vitals. Tahiti: Henry 339.
A705.1.2. Clouds as tapa beaten out by woman in moon. Samoa: Clark 120.
A705.2. Nature of clouds (covered with skin). (Cf. A702.9.) — India: Thompson-Balys.
A710—A739. THE SUN
A710. Creation of the sun. *Rühle Sonne und Mond im primitiven Mythus (Tübingen, 1925). — Irish myth: Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. — Indonesian: Dixon 177; Australian: ibid. 275; Navaho: Alexander N. Am. 166ff.; Hopi: ibid. 205; Quileute: Farrand JAFL XXXII 254f.; Sinkyone: Kroeber JAFL XXXII 346f.; Tahitan: Teit JAFL XXXII 205. — Inca: Alexander Lat. Am. 240; Africa (Luba): Donohugh Africa V 180.
F961.1. Extraordinary behavior of sun.
A711. Sun as man who left earth. Man, usually of supernatural birth, ascends to the sky and becomes the sun. — India: Thompson-Balys; Bushman: Bleek and Lloyd 45; Gold Coast: Barker and Sinclair 97 No. 18; Ekoi: Talbot 357, 359; British New Guinea: Dixon 113; Tuamotu: Stimson MS (T-g 3/191); S. Am. Indian (Eastern Brazil): Lowie BBAE CXLIII (1) 434, (Guarayú): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 147, (Kaigua): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 138ff., (Manasi): Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 393, (Chiriguano): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 122, 158—165, (Guaporé River): Lévi-Strauss BBAE CXLIII (3) 379.
A711.1. Sun and moon as uncle and nephew who ascended to the sky. Tunja (Colombia): Alexander Lat. Am. 200.
A711.2. Sun as a cannibal. India: Thompson-Balys; Crow: Lowie PaAM XV 157.
A736.4.1. Sun-moon quarrel when sun eats up all their children but two. G11. Kinds of cannibals.
A711.3. Originally a moon but no sun. Africa (Luba): Donohugh Africa V 180.
A711.4. Originally no sun. Africa (Bushongo): Torday 247.
A712. Sun as fire rekindled every morning. Australian: Dixon 274f.
A712.1. Moon from light, sun from fire. Jewish: Neuman.
A713. Sun and moon from cave. Haiti: Alexander Lat. Am. 28.
A713.1. Sun and moon from belly of a fish. India: Thompson-Balys.
