World of serpents

Motif

World of serpents.

Mythological motifs. · Cosmogony and cosmology. · The universe. · Nature of the universe. · Miscellaneous worlds. · view the constellation · filed as A696

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Buddhist The Jataka, or Stories of the Buddha's Former Births , Book III
Greco-Roman The Metamorphoses of Ovid , Book 15
Finnish The Kalevala , Rune XV

Filed across the traditions

Hindu Keith 154.

Within the index

Filed under Miscellaneous worlds.

Filed beside it

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

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