Sky supported by north star ("nail of the north") around which it revolves. (Cf. A665, A774.)

Motif

Sky supported by north star ("nail of the north") around which it revolves. (Cf. A665, A774.)

Mythological motifs. · Cosmogony and cosmology. · The heavens. · Creation of the heavenly bodies. · view the constellation · filed as A702.3

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Scholars’ trail — 3references

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 335
EstonianLoorits Grundzüge I 386. – Finno-Ugric: Holmberg Finno-Ugric 221. – Siberian: Holmberg Siberian 337.
general Gaster Thespis 170

Within the index

Filed under Nature of the sky.

1 finer motif beneath it

Celestial bodies attached to a wheel in heaven around which they move

Filed beside it

Sky of water. The sky consists of water Sky as solid vault (tent)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

Travels with

Support of the sky Origin of the North Star. (Cf. A702.3.)

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