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

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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

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In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

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

Scholars’ trail — 4references

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.

NorseDh I 111 n. 1
ChineseEberhard 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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