fire-myth

Updated: May 16, 2025

Connections of that sort were easily invented at random by the compilers of the Brahmanas in their existing form. The connection between Pururavas and Agni, fire, is what appeals to Kuhn and, in short, where Mr. Muller sees a myth of sun and dawn, Kuhn recognises a fire-myth. No better example could be given to illustrate the weakness of the philological method.

Andrew Lang - Custom and Myth

The "Kojiki" does indeed contain what is probably the later form of the fire-myth about two brothers, Prince Fire-Shine and Fire-Fade, which suggests both the later Greek myth of the fore- and after-thinker and a tradition of a flood. The first, and most probably older, myth in giving the origin of fire does it in true Japanese style, with details of parturition.

William Elliot Griffis - The Religions of Japan: From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji