Heavenly bodies from objects thrown into sky. The Christ Child throws mud pies into the sky and creates sun, moon, and stars

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Heavenly bodies from objects thrown into sky. The Christ Child throws mud pies into the sky and creates sun, moon, and stars.

Mythological motifs. · Cosmogony and cosmology. · The heavens. · Creation of the heavenly bodies. · view the constellation · filed as A700.1

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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.

Icel.MacCulloch Eddic 325–26.
general *Dh II 78ff.

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Filed under Creation of the heavenly bodies.

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Heavenly bodies vomited up by creator A woman has four children: sun, moon, fire, and water Heavenly bodies created after the plant world Sun, moon, and stars forged by smith Sun and moon purchased Sun, moon, and stars nourished on fire Sun, moon, and darkness as god's three children Creation of the sky Nature of the sky Angels arrange course of heavenly bodies Origin and nature of clouds

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