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The trisolarian plot in Cixin Liu's The Three Body Problem also seems to have borrowed from this myth.

Having read (and enjoyed) that trilogy, I'm not making the connection. Which part?

There is a 3-star system that causes periodic droughts on a planet in the system based on which star(s) the planet's semi-stable orbit crosses.

In the novel, the three-body civilization would go extinct if there are two or three suns in the sky.