The constellation
F56 Sky-window. An opening into the sky gives access to upper world
A constellation is one motif’s neighborhood in the record — the story-shapes filed around it, the tale types that carry it, and the texts where it is witnessed, every line a receipted link. Click a motif to travel. Click a text to read it. The entry · wander
● motif
● tale type
● on the shelf
● attested
The same sky, in words
filed under
- Access to upper world · F50 entry
beneath it
keeps company
- Sky-window from digging or uprooting plant (tree) in upper world · F56.1 entry
- Stupid ogre · G501 entry
- Combat between god of light and dragon of ocean · A162.2 entry
- God of water · A420 entry
- Inexhaustible buckets as source of lakes · A920.1.1 entry
- Form of dragon · B11.2 entry
- Dragon as compound animal. (Cf. B14.) · B11.2.1 entry
- Dragon's home in bottom of sea · B11.3.1 entry
- Dragon's visit to sky · B11.3.3 entry
- Dragon's power of self-transformation · B11.5.1 entry
Thompson cites
- Myths & Legends of China · Chapter VII