Support of the sky

Motif

Support of the sky.

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

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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
Mesoamerican (Maya / Nahua)Popol Vuh, or Book of the Holy Assembly (Guthrie translation, serialized, truncated), Part 1, Chapter 2

Within the index

Filed under Nature of the upper world.

7 finer motifs beneath 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 Serpent supports sky

Filed beside it

Heaven. A blissful upper world Upper world (heaven) as a mountain. The sky is the hollowed under side of the mountain The plains of heaven Ladder to heaven (applied to saint)Language of heaven Nature of the upper world – miscellaneous

Travels with

Sky supported by north star ("nail of the north") around which it revolves. (Cf. A665, A774.)

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