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

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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.

Mythological motifs. · Cosmogony and cosmology. · The universe. · Creation of the universe. · Spontaneous creation of universe. · view the constellation · filed as A625.2.3

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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.

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Heaven and earth originally connected by navel string. Navel string cut Why the sky receded upward: it was struck by a woman's pestle 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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