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 Berdoe, Edward

The serpent Python, in accordance with the continual transformations of myth, becomes the Hydra of Lerna, and Hercules, another solar myth, is substituted for Apollo.

From Myth and Science An Essay by Vignoli, Tito

The older interpretation, however, takes the custom back to the Druidic days, and makes it a form of the solar myth.

From British Goblins Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Sikes, Wirt

Whether he was a fictitious hero, or a solar myth, or what he was, no man knows.

From God and my Neighbour by Blatchford, Robert

Fairyland, of course, is a childish fiction, Apollo a solar myth, a road is a road, grass is grass and heaven is a state of mind.

From The Healthy Life, Vol. V, Nos. 24-28 The Independent Health Magazine by Daniel, Charles William