World as egg. The two halves are heaven and earth

Motif

World as egg. The two halves are heaven and earth.

Mythological motifs. · Cosmogony and cosmology. · The universe. · Nature of the universe. · The universe as a whole. · view the constellation · filed as A655

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Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

HinduPenzer I 10 n. 3
GreekFox 5.

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Filed under The universe as a whole.

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Hierarchy of worlds. A series of worlds, one above the other World-tree. Tree extending from lowest to highest world. (Cf. A878.)Earth under umbrella Primary elements of universe. (Earth, air, fire, water, etc.)River connecting earth and upper and lower worlds Size and distances of the universe The universe as a whole – miscellaneous

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