Earlier universe opposite of present. Everything in the earlier world was the reverse of the present world. Cf. A855

Motif

Earlier universe opposite of present. Everything in the earlier world was the reverse of the present world. Cf. A855.

Mythological motifs. · Cosmogony and cosmology. · The universe. · Creation of the universe. · Series of creations. · view the constellation · filed as A633

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

general California tribes (Capistrano, Luiseño, Diegueño, Mohave): Waterman AA n. s. XI 52.

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Filed under Series of creations. The present universe is the last of a succession of creations.

Filed beside it

Pre-existing world of gods above. Such a world is assumed before the real creation of the universe. Though this belief is not explicitly set forth in many mythologies, it seems to be implied in most of the North American Indian systems. See, for example, motif A31, Creator's grandmother Succession of creations and cataclysms. From the ruins of each earlier creation a new one is raised New creation shouted away. It is unstable and therefore unsatisfactory

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Opposite of present. Everything on the earth – courses of rivers, height of mountains, human reproduction, etc. – are at first the reverse of the present condition

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