Measuring the world

Motif

Measuring the world.

Mythological motifs. · Establishment of natural order. · Establishment of present order – miscellaneous motifs. · view the constellation · filed as A1186

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Indic The Mahābhārata , Book 3, Section CCLXX
Indic The Mahābhārata , Book 3, Section XC
Literary Crystallization Ulysses , 18 Penelope
Literary Crystallization The Vision; or, Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise , Paradise 28
Literary Crystallization The Vision; or, Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise , Purgatory 24

Filed across the traditions

India Thompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Establishment of present order – miscellaneous motifs.

Filed beside it

Determination of world center. By reaching to its ends Determination of world quarters. The four cardinal points Wings cut from flying mountains. In beginning mountains have wings. They are cut off by thunderbolt 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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