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Example sentences for "solar myth"

  • Every poet who sings about "the May driving the Winter from the field again" commits a solar myth.

  • Why, every time we say "Good-morning," we commit a solar myth.

  • Some, of course, deny his very existence, and reduce him to a solar myth.

  • So easy is it to turn history into a solar myth.

  • How easy it would be, in a few centuries, to turn General Washington and the American Revolution into a solar myth!

  • One cannot approve, as scholarlike or philosophical, the scepticism of Mr. Cox, who can see in the whole narrative nothing but a solar myth.

  • It is therefore quite possible that Agamemnon and Menelaos may represent dimly remembered sovereigns or heroes, with their characters and actions distorted to suit the exigencies of a narrative founded upon a solar myth.

  • The only reference to such a deluge is contained in one chapter of a Chaldaean epic poem based on a solar myth, and placed in an immense and fabulous antiquity.

  • It is a bit of solar myth: ‘He is red, and of excellent sight and good eyes’ (1 Sam.

  • Yet side by side with this legend of civilisation we have in connexion with Noah a true old solar myth, which well deserves attention.

  • Solar myth, in which the Sun does battle against the Dragon or serpentine monster that obscures or devours him.

  • Oort says: "The story of Samson is simply a solar myth.

  • We saw that it was a solar myth, known to many nations of antiquity.

  • A rough synopsis of the groundwork of solar myth might be given as follows.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "solar myth" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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