solar myth

British  

noun

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

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solar myth

We saw that it was a solar myth, known to many nations of antiquity.

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

One cannot approve, as scholarlike or philosophical, the scepticism of Mr. Cox, who can see in the whole narrative nothing but a solar myth.

From Myths and myth-makers: Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology by John Fiske

There are many legends of this sort which ought to exist, but don't, owing to the negligence of Indian solar myth merchants, or whoever it is has charge of that class of misrepresentation.

From The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 27, March 1893 An Illustrated Monthly by Various

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 Tito Vignoli

This is in twelve parts, and is really a solar myth, which recounts the twelve labors of the sun in his yearly passage through the twelve signs of the Chaldæan zodiac.

From General History for Colleges and High Schools by Philip Van Ness Myers