Nine days' fall from heaven to earth; the same from earth to hell

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Nine days' fall from heaven to earth; the same from earth to hell.

Mythological motifs. · Cosmogony and cosmology. · The universe. · Nature of the universe. · The universe as a whole. · view the constellation · filed as A658.1

Cited in the index

general Frazer Apollodorus I 4 n. 2. → on our shelf: The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK I, ch. I

Within the index

Filed under Size and distances of the universe.

1 finer motif beneath it

Nine nights' riding from heaven (or earth) to hell

Filed beside it

Five hundred years travel across universe

Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes

The Furies. Goddesses of vengeance World parents: sky-father and earth-mother as parents of the universe. The sky-father descends upon the earth-mother and begets the world Person with one eye in center of forehead. (Cf. F441.4.1, F531.1.1.1.) Hundred-handed giants Birth from blood Birth from contact of severed male genitals with ground

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