μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 5references

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
  • PawneeAlexander N. Am. 108
  • Navahoibid. 163
  • PersianCarnoy 276
  • BabylonianSpence 115.
Within the index
12 finer motifs beneath it
Heavenly bodies from objects thrown into sky. The Christ Child throws mud pies into the sky and creates sun, moon, and starsHeavenly bodies vomited up by creatorA woman has four children: sun, moon, fire, and waterHeavenly bodies created after the plant worldSun, moon, and stars forged by smithSun and moon purchasedSun, moon, and stars nourished on fireSun, moon, and darkness as god's three childrenCreation of the skyNature of the skyAngels arrange course of heavenly bodiesOrigin and nature of clouds

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