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Motif

Heaven. A blissful upper world.

Mythological motifs. · Cosmogony and cosmology. · The universe. · Nature of the universe. · Nature of the upper world. · view the constellation · filed as A661

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“On the way, however, he lost one seed out of the bag. The butcher paid him justly as agreed on, and if the peasant had not lost the seed, he would have had one thaler the more. In the meantime, when he went on his way back, the seed had grown into a tree which reached up to the sky. Then thought the peasant, " As thou hast the chance, thou must just see what the angels are doing up there above, and for once have them before thine eyes."”

Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes, Tale 112 · served from our shelf  receiptuncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan

Attested across traditions
Scholars’ trail — 13references

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.

  • Irish mythCross, Beal XXI 330
  • NorseMacCulloch Eddic 312
  • GermanGrimm Nos. 3, 35, 81, 82, 112, 167, 175, 178
  • EgyptianMüller 176
  • PersianCarnoy 345
  • HinduKeith 99, 131, 201. – Japanese: Anesaki 237, 241. – Haida: Alexander N. Am. 263
  • Eskimoibid. 7
  • AztecAlexander Lat. Am. 81
  • Mayaibid. 138, 140
  • general Kohler Heaven and Hell in Comparative Religion (New York 1923)
  • general Jeremias Hölle und Paradies bei den Babyloniern (Leipzig 1903)
  • general Gaster Thespis 286
  • general Isthmian tribes (Panama): ibid. 193.
Within the index

Filed under Nature of the upper world.

14 finer motifs beneath it
Gate of heavenMusic in heavenChairs in heavenCleansing fountain in heavenBridge of heavenWindows in heaven: sixty-six (seventy-two) windows in the firmamentSelf-illuminating precious stones in heavenSweet odor in heavenHeaven surrounded by seven wallsLand of the saints surrounded by fiery circleValhalla. The hall of warriors who go to Odin. They die and are resurrected dailyThe eight paradisesFive trees of paradiseGirls dancing in heaven
Filed beside it
Upper world (heaven) as a mountain. The sky is the hollowed under side of the mountainThe plains of heavenSupport of the skyLadder to heaven (applied to saint)Language of heavenNature of the upper world – miscellaneous
Travels with
Souls in heaven. (Cf. A661.)
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Moon stolen and divided into quartersBanishment from heaven for breaking tabuTransformation: man to steer (bullock)Magic cardMagic tree supplies foodPerson in magic sleep surrounded by protecting hedgeResidence in a treeExtraordinary growth of ox hornsFlail substantiates story of witnessing threshing in heavenMagic manifestation at execution proves innocenceAdventures from pursuing enchanted animal (hind, boar, bird). (Guiding Beast.)Punishment: burning alive

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