Frigidity of hell

Motif

Frigidity of hell.

Mythological motifs. · Cosmogony and cosmology. · The universe. · Nature of the universe. · Nature of the lower world. · view the constellation · filed as A671.3

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Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

Irish mythCross
Buddhist mythMalalasekera II 786.

Within the index

Filed under Hell. Lower world of torment.

3 finer motifs beneath it

Coldness in hell Rugged, icy mountains in hell Alternate heat and cold in hell

Filed beside it

Hell located to the north Creation of hell Entrance to cave as gate to hell Hell confused with fairy land Size and arrangements of hell Doorkeeper of hell Horrible sights in hell Well in hell (Hvergelmir)Gate around hell Beings born in hell have long bodies and cling with long nails to walls

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