Determination of world center. By reaching to its ends

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Determination of world center. By reaching to its ends.

Mythological motifs. · Establishment of natural order. · Establishment of present order – miscellaneous motifs. · view the constellation · filed as A1181

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The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

N. Am. IndianKroeber JAFL XXI 223.

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Determination of world quarters. The four cardinal points Wings cut from flying mountains. In beginning mountains have wings. They are cut off by thunderbolt Measuring the world Creator appoints a chief for each class of created things: Lucifer for demons, Sion for mountains, etc All things receive names Origin of echo Why salt disappeared from forests

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