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Solar myth

Solar myth \So"lar myth\ A myth which essentially consists of allegory based upon ideas as to the sun's course, motion, influence, or the like.

Usage examples of "solar myth".

Fuller really existed or was a technocratic solar myth, and whether human language was capable of containing truth.

The phoenix is more fabulous still and had its origins, perhaps, as an Egyptian solar myth.

Obviously it is an artificial interpretation, and yet contains a profound truth, since - as Senart has definitely proved - Sakyamuni belongs to the same solar myth which is implicit in all Vishnu's incarnations.

Another interesting solar myth concerns the, magical potency of the name of a god.

Attempts to show that Begi was in fact a solar myth originating in latitudes where seasons are marked enough to foster concepts of death and rebirth of the sun are tantalising, but fruitless in the absence of any other than oral evidence, though it is highly possible that prehistoric cross-cultural interaction provided some elements of the Begi myth which has descended to us.

But he had long since lost interest in the innumerable variations of the solar myth.

Because, of course, the Counterweight Continent was nothing more than a solar myth.