solar myth

How to use solar myth in a sentence

• The separatist theories of the Homeric poems are not more secure than the solar myth, "like a wave shall they pass and be passed."

  Homer and His Age | Andrew Lang

• The magazine contained a series of notes on the nursery rhymes, where the "Song of Sixpence" was proved to be a solar myth.

  Magnum Bonum | Charlotte M. Yonge

• He is a myth, and what is more he is a solar myth—an avatar, or at least a representative of Odin in his solar capacity.

  On Some Ancient Battle-Fields in Lancashire | Charles Hardwick

• There is considerable affinity, in this phase of the superstition, to the classic solar myth which records the doom of Meleager.

  Traditions, Superstitions and Folk-lore | Charles Hardwick

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

  British Goblins | Wirt Sikes