Pillar supporting sky

Motif

Pillar supporting sky.

Mythological motifs. · Cosmogony and cosmology. · The universe. · Nature of the universe. · Nature of the upper world. · view the constellation · filed as A665.2

Filed across the traditions

Norse MacCulloch Eddic 334ff.
general *Holmberg Baum des Lebens 12ff. Siberian: Holmberg Siberian 333ff.

Within the index

Filed under Support of the sky.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Pillars supporting sky Four sky-columns. Four columns support the sky

Filed beside it

God stabilizes the sky God of space upholds sky Mountain supports sky Tree supports sky. (Cf. A652.1.) Sky held against earth by great octopus Serpent supports sky

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