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solar myth
noun
- a myth explaining or allegorizing the origin or movement of the sun
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The separatist theories of the Homeric poems are not more secure than the Solar Myth, "like a wave shall they pass and be passed."
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The magazine contained a series of notes on the nursery rhymes, where the "Song of Sixpence" was proved to be a solar myth.
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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.
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There is considerable affinity, in this phase of the superstition, to the classic solar myth which records the doom of Meleager.
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The older interpretation, however, takes the custom back to the Druidic days, and makes it a form of the solar myth.
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