Tree hanging from sky. A tree hangs upside down in the sky. By its branches men pass back and forth to the upper world

Motif

Tree hanging from sky. A tree hangs upside down in the sky. By its branches men pass back and forth to the upper world.

Mythological motifs. · Cosmogony and cosmology. · The universe. · Nature of the universe. · The universe as a whole. · view the constellation · filed as A652.2

Cited in the index

general Indonesian and Micronesian: Dixon 38 (n. 113, 114), 249.

Within the index

Filed under World-tree. Tree extending from lowest to highest world. (Cf. A878.)

Filed beside it

Tree to heaven Tree in upper world Sky as overshadowing tree. Shadowing the earth

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