Why the sky receded upward: it was struck by a woman's pestle

Motif

Why the sky receded upward: it was struck by a woman's pestle.

Mythological motifs. · Cosmogony and cosmology. · The universe. · Creation of the universe. · Spontaneous creation of universe. · view the constellation · filed as A625.2.2

Filed across the traditions

India Thompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Raising of the sky. Originally the sky is near the earth (usually because of the conjunction of the sky-father and earth-mother). It is raised to its present place.

Filed beside it

Heaven and earth originally connected by navel string. Navel string cut Raising the sky: striking with broom. Old woman's hump strikes clouds as she sweeps. She strikes at sky with broom and thus raises it Deity clothes his father the sky after he has separated him from earth After sky is lifted, plants and shrubs begin to grow

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