Universe from parts of creator's body. Ymir makes the world from his members – mountains from bones, cliffs from teeth, heavens from skull, etc

Motif

Universe from parts of creator's body. Ymir makes the world from his members – mountains from bones, cliffs from teeth, heavens from skull, etc.

Mythological motifs. · Cosmogony and cosmology. · The universe. · Creation of the universe. · Creation of universe by creator. · view the constellation · filed as A614

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Hermetic / Alchemical The Hermetic Museum, Restored and Enlarged , Tract 15: The New Chemical Light, Part II, Concerning Sulphur (Michael Sendivogius)

Filed across the traditions

Norse Dh I 111 n. 1
Chinese Eberhard FFC CXX 96 No. 55.
general Lang Myth I 234 ff. – Mexican: Danzel Kultur und Religion des primitiven Menschen 60
general Kalmuck, Chinese, Hindu: Holmberg Finno-Ugric 372

Within the index

Filed under Creation of universe by creator. The creator is existing before all things.

1 finer motif beneath it

Universe from parts of man's body. (Cf. A831.2)

Filed beside it

All things created in pairs (heaven and earth, etc.) Creation of heaven, earth, and hell Fiat creation. Universe is created at command of creator Creation: materialization of creator's thinking. Creator "thinks outward in space" and thus produces the universe Creation from creator's tears Universe as offspring of creator. The Sky Father begets various parts of the universe by his various wives Creation of universe from clam-shell on primeval water by creator Universe created by various activities of creator

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