Islands of the blest

Motif

Islands of the blest.

Mythological motifs. · Cosmogony and cosmology. · The universe. · Nature of the universe. · Miscellaneous worlds. · view the constellation · filed as A692

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Greco-Roman The Library (Bibliotheca) , BOOK II, ch. IV
Greco-Roman The Library (Bibliotheca) , BOOK III, ch. X
Depth Commentary Primitive Culture: Researches into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art, and Custom , Chapter XVII
Irish Old Celtic Romances: Translated from the Gaelic , Tale 5 THE VOYAGE OF MAILDUN.
Hawaiian Legends of Maui and Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes , 35 tAPIOLANI AXD PELE

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth Cross. Greek: Fox 147, Grote I 62, Güntert Kalypso 81
general Gaster Oldest Stories 50. – Oceanic: Kruyt Het Animisme 368ff.
general Landman Kiwai Papuans 12
general Lévy-Bruhl L'âme primitive 382ff.

Within the index

Filed under Miscellaneous worlds.

1 finer motif beneath it

Overseas otherworld in the west

Filed beside it

Intermediate future world. Residence for those whose good and evil deeds exactly counterbalance Christian paradise Moon as next world. (Cf. A750.) World of serpents Various Buddhist otherworlds

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