Preferred Citation: Ramanujan, A. K. A Flowering Tree and Other Oral Tales from India. Berkeley London:  University of California Press,  c1997 1997. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft067n99wt/


 
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Types and Motifs

Type AT 2031B, The Most Powerful Idol. In the Judaic and Islamic traditions, this story is known as “Abraham Learns to Worship God,” in which Abraham first worships a star at nightfall, then the moon which obscures the star, then the sun, and finally gives up idolatry.


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Preferred Citation: Ramanujan, A. K. A Flowering Tree and Other Oral Tales from India. Berkeley London:  University of California Press,  c1997 1997. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft067n99wt/