solar myth

British  

noun

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

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solar myth

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 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 Doane, T. W.

Every poet who sings about "the May driving the Winter from the field again" commits a solar myth.

From India: What can it teach us? A Course of Lectures Delivered before the University Of Cambridge by Wilder, Alexander

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 Myers, Philip Van Ness

The theft is sometimes explained as a solar myth; the twilight steals the bright days of the sun-god.

From Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Lang, Andrew