μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Sky as solid vault (tent).

Mythological motifs. · Cosmogony and cosmology. · The heavens. · Creation of the heavenly bodies. · view the constellation · filed as A702.2

Filed across the traditions
  • Siberian Holmberg Siberian 336
  • Eskimo (Labrador) Hawkes GSCan XIV 153. African: Werner African 130. – Cf. Isaiah, ch 40.
  • general Hatt Asiatic Influences 63
Within the index

Filed under Nature of the sky.

Filed beside it
Sky of water. The sky consists of water Sky supported by north star ("nail of the north") around which it revolves. (Cf. A665, A774.) Why the sky is blue Marriage of earth and sky Sky measured by bird Clouds as props of the sky Sky is black because once raised by means of dirty stick Sky immortal, changing skin like a snake

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