Four dwarfs support the sky

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Four dwarfs support the sky.

Mythological motifs. · Cosmogony and cosmology. · The universe. · Nature of the universe. · Nature of the upper world. · view the constellation · filed as A665.2.1.2

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

Icel.MacCulloch Eddic 264–65.

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Filed under Four sky-columns. Four columns support the sky.

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Four gods at world-quarters support the sky Sky extended by means of pillars

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