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

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In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

BuddhistThe Jataka, or Stories of the Buddha's Former Births, Book III
Greco-RomanThe Metamorphoses of Ovid, Book 15
FinnishThe Kalevala, Rune XV

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.

HinduKeith 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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