Serpent supports sky

Motif

Serpent supports sky.

Mythological motifs. · Cosmogony and cosmology. · The universe. · Nature of the universe. · Nature of the upper world. · view the constellation · filed as A665.6

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In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Mesoamerican (Maya / Nahua)Popol Vuh, or Book of the Holy Assembly (Guthrie translation, serialized, truncated), Part 1, Chapter 1

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.

S. Am. Indian (Yuracare)Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 503.

Within the index

Filed under Support of the sky.

Filed beside it

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

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