solar myth

British  

noun

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

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Example Sentences

This nonsense about Keltic and Teutonic is no more science than Lombroso's extraordinary assertions about criminals, or palmistry, or the development of religion from a solar myth.

From Anticipations Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human life and Thought by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

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 Fiske, John

These changing dates do not point to the history of a man, but to the Hero of a solar myth.

From Esoteric Christianity, or The Lesser Mysteries by Besant, Annie Wood

The last scene exhibits a manifest return to the spirit of the 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.

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 Leland, Charles Godfrey