Heaven. A blissful upper world

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

Attested across traditions

Germanic Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes , Tale 3 receipt
Germanic Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes , Tale 35 receipt
Germanic Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes , Tale 81 receipt
Germanic Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes , Tale 82 receipt
Germanic Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes , Tale 112 receipt
Germanic Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes , Tale 167 receipt
Germanic Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes , Tale 175 receipt
Germanic Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes , Tale 178 receipt

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth Cross, Beal XXI 330
Norse MacCulloch Eddic 312
German Grimm Nos. 3, 35, 81, 82, 112, 167, 175, 178
Egyptian Müller 176
Persian Carnoy 345
Hindu Keith 99, 131, 201. – Japanese: Anesaki 237, 241. – Haida: Alexander N. Am. 263
Eskimo ibid. 7
Aztec Alexander Lat. Am. 81
Maya ibid. 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 heaven Music in heaven Chairs in heaven Cleansing fountain in heaven Bridge of heaven Windows in heaven: sixty-six (seventy-two) windows in the firmament Self-illuminating precious stones in heaven Sweet odor in heaven Heaven surrounded by seven walls Land of the saints surrounded by fiery circle Valhalla. The hall of warriors who go to Odin. They die and are resurrected daily The eight paradises Five trees of paradise Girls dancing in heaven

Filed beside it

Upper world (heaven) as a mountain. The sky is the hollowed under side of the mountain The plains of heaven Support of the sky Ladder to heaven (applied to saint) Language of heaven Nature of the upper world – miscellaneous

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Souls in heaven. (Cf. A661.)

Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes

Moon stolen and divided into quarters Banishment from heaven for breaking tabu Transformation: man to steer (bullock) Magic card Magic tree supplies food Person in magic sleep surrounded by protecting hedge Residence in a tree Extraordinary growth of ox horns Flail substantiates story of witnessing threshing in heaven Magic manifestation at execution proves innocence Adventures from pursuing enchanted animal (hind, boar, bird). (Guiding Beast.) Punishment: burning alive

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