Eight heavens — Mythoi

Motif

Eight heavens.

Mythological motifs. · Cosmogony and cosmology. · The universe. · Nature of the universe. · The universe as a whole. · view the constellation · filed as A651.1.5

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In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Japanese / ShintoKojiki: Records of Ancient Matters, Section 33
IndicThe Mahābhārata, Book 5, Section XXXV
Japanese / ShintoNihongi: Chronicles of Japan, Book 1
Japanese / ShintoKojiki: Records of Ancient Matters, Section 16
Japanese / ShintoKojiki: Records of Ancient Matters, Section 46

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.

SamoaBeckwith Myth 210.

Within the index

Filed under Series of upper worlds.

Filed beside it

Highest of celestial worlds consists of twenty heavens Three heavens Four heavens Five heavens Seven heavens. A series of seven upper worlds Nine heavens Ten heavens Series of upper worlds – miscellaneous

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