A. Mythological Motifs
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313; Icel.: MacCulloch Eddic 198; Babylonian: Spence 236; Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys.
A136.2.1. God's chariot.
A724.1. Charioteer of the sun. Sun drives his horses and chariot across sky. — Howey Horse in Magic and Myth 114ff. — Icel.: MacCulloch Eddic 196; Greek: Fox 243; Hindu: Penzer I 143 n. 2, II 150ff.
B41.2. Flying horse. F1021.2.1. Flight so high that sun melts glue of artificial wings. L421. Attempt to fly to heaven punished.
A724.1.0.1. Coyote rides with sun. Calif. Indian: Gayton and Newman 85.
A724.1.1. Phaëton. Sun entrusts his chariot to another (his son) and the horses run away. The world is almost burnt up. — Krappe "Phaëthon", The Review of Religion (1944) 115—129. — Greek: *Roscher s.v. "Phaëthon", *Frazer Pausanias II 59. — N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 291 n. 66.
A724.1.2. Chariot of sun accompanied by angels. Jewish: Neuman.
A724.2. The sun a golden bowl on the rim of which sits a peacock; both bowl and peacock are in a crystal box, which rests on a flying chariot. — India: Thompson-Balys.
A721. Sun kept in box.
A725. Man controls rising and setting of sun. Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: *Neuman.
D1546.2. Magic spell controls sun.
A725.1. Sun does not set for a year through power of saint. Irish myth: Cross.
V222. Miraculous manifestation acclaims saint.
A726. Daily course of sun across sky.
A726.1. Sun and moon make daily tour under direct orders of God. Jewish: Neuman.
A726.2. Wings of sun. Jewish: Neuman.
A727. Raising the sun. Originally low, it is raised little by little by conjurors. — Cherokee: Alexander N. Am. 60; Navaho: ibid. 167ff.
A625.2. Raising the sky.
A727.1. Sun originally so hot that it threatens all life. India: Thompson-Balys.
A728. Sun caught in snare. Luomala Oceanic, American Indian, and African Myths of Snaring the Sun (BMB No. 168 [Honolulu, 1940]); *Dh III 120ff. — India: Thompson-Balys; African: Frobenius Atlantis V 38, 70f., XII 160, 185f.
H1023.23. Task: to tie the sun with a gold chain.
A728.1. Sun-snarer: burnt mantle. A boy is angered because the sun burned his mantle. He makes a snare and catches the sun and delays him so that everything is burning up. A mouse finally gnaws the snare in two. — American Indian: *Thompson Tales 290 n. 65. Cf. Luomala.
A728.2. Sun-snarer: fast sun. The sun goes too fast to dry clothing. The hero snares the sun's legs with a rope as he is climbing up from the underworld. He releases the sun upon the promise to go more slowly. — Polynesian: *Dixon 44ff. n. 26; Society Is., Samoan: ibid. 46; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 10, 227, 230; Marquesas: Handy 103. Cf. Luomala.
