solar myth

British  

noun

1. a myth explaining or allegorizing the origin or movement of the sun

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solar myth

Mr. Tylor considers the story to be a solar myth.

From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Edward Berdoe

I have very little doubt that the story as here given is an old solar myth, worked up, perhaps, with the story of Cinderella, derived from a Canadian-French source.

From Algonquin Legends of New England by Charles Godfrey Leland

The New Zealand myth of the Origin of Death is pretty well known, as Dr. Tylor has seen in it the remnants of a solar myth, and has given it a ‘solar’ explanation. 

From Modern Mythology by Andrew Lang

No more fortunate has been the German attempt to resolve the story of Minos and the Minotaur, the Labyrinth and Pasiphae, into a clumsy solar myth.

From The Sea-Kings of Crete by James Baikie

The story of Samson is simply a solar myth.

From Bible Myths and their Parallels in other Religions Being a Comparison of the Old and New Testament Myths and Miracles with those of the Heathen Nations of Antiquity Considering also their Origin and Meaning by T. W. Doane

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