Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A solar myth. See under solar.
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Examples
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He was not that sun-myth that the mob was worshipping and sacrificing dinners to.
Chapter 45 2010
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This we regarded as a sun-myth, or some other form of aboriginal superstition, until we were informed by several of the gravest and most trustworthy gentlemen of several different localities on the mountains that there really is
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873 Various
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We hope that no philosopher, philologist, or ethnologist will persist in demonstrating the sun-myth or any other allegory from this beautiful poem.
Malayan Literature Various
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The older mythologists, who only saw in it a sun-myth, overlooked the fact that since any weapon would have done to kill the God with, the mistletoe must have some special significance; and if it is a genuine part of the story, as we have no reason to doubt, it will be hard to overturn Dr. Frazer's theory that the Baldr-myth is a relic of tree-worship and the ritual sacrifice of the God,
The Edda, Volume 1 The Divine Mythology of the North, Popular Studies in Mythology, Romance, and Folklore, No. 12 L. Winifred Faraday
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William Tell is a "sun-myth" -- some remnants of this belief still linger.
Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science Various
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Widespread over the earth has been, and still is, the worship of the sun; some mythologists, indeed, would go too far and explain almost every feature of savage and barbarous religion as a sun-myth or as smacking of heliolatry.
The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain
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Theories of origin of fairy tales: detritus of myth, 161-63; sun-myth theory, 163-64; common Indian heritage, 165-67; identity of early fancy, 167.
A Study of Fairy Tales Laura F. Kready
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It was like living again in the Dark Ages -- in the days before the sages and the sun-myth.
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He was not that sun-myth that the mob was worshipping and sacrificing dinners to.
Chapter 45 1908
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The mountain is an old sun-myth of the Sun God on his hill, and the twelve apostles are another sun-myth, and represent the signs of the Zodiac.
God and my Neighbour Robert Blatchford 1897
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