Universe created out of ice and mist

Motif

Universe created out of ice and mist.

Mythological motifs. · Cosmogony and cosmology. · The universe. · Creation of the universe. · Spontaneous creation of universe. · view the constellation · filed as A623

Filed across the traditions

Icel. MacCulloch Eddic 324–26, 304, 329, Herrmann Saxo II 584.

Within the index

Filed under Spontaneous creation of universe.

Filed beside it

Spontaneous creation – evolutionary type. From primeval chaos gradually arise worlds and life Spontaneous encroachment of heavens and earth checked by creator Universe from congealed vapor Universe created out of fire world World parents: sky-father and earth-mother as parents of the universe. The sky-father descends upon the earth-mother and begets the world

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Land of cold and mist. (Cf. A623.)

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