Comparative mythology corpus

Solar Position As Journey Or Navigation Marker

1 appearances across 1 tradition groups.

Evidence

Each row links back to the complete public-domain source text and the structured extraction record.

TraditionSourcePassageConfidenceEvidenceRecord
Greek The Odyssey BOOK XXII / BOOK XXIII / BOOK XXIV / FOOTNOTES:; lines 11490-11612 medium The phrase 'where are the turnings of the sun' is explained as a coastal turn after which mariners would find the sun on the other side of the ship; the commentator cites Herodotus iv.42, where Phoenician mariners reportedly said that in sailing around Libya they had the sun on their right hand. record