Sky held against earth by great octopus

Motif

Sky held against earth by great octopus.

Mythological motifs. · Cosmogony and cosmology. · The universe. · Nature of the universe. · Nature of the upper world. · view the constellation · filed as A665.5

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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.

TahitiHenry 338.

Within the index

Filed under Support of the sky.

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God stabilizes the sky God of space upholds sky Pillar supporting sky Mountain supports sky Tree supports sky. (Cf. A652.1.)Serpent supports sky

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