Four sky-columns. Four columns support the sky

Motif

Four sky-columns. Four columns 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

Cited in the index

general Cook Zeus II 140ff.
general Frobenius Erdteile VI 165ff. – Egyptian: Müller 35.

Within the index

Filed under Pillar supporting sky.

3 finer motifs beneath it

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

Filed beside it

Pillars supporting sky

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