The plains of heaven

Motif

The plains of heaven.

Mythological motifs. · Cosmogony and cosmology. · The universe. · Nature of the universe. · Nature of the upper world. · view the constellation · filed as A663

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Japanese / Shinto Kojiki: Records of Ancient Matters , Section 16
Japanese / Shinto Nihongi: Chronicles of Japan , Book 1
Japanese / Shinto Nihongi: Chronicles of Japan , Book 6
Norse The Prose Edda (The Younger Edda) , FOREWORD.
Japanese / Shinto Kojiki: Records of Ancient Matters , Introduction

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth Cross.

Within the index

Filed under Nature of the upper world.

Filed beside it

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

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Otherworld as great plain. (Cf. A663.)

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