Why the sky is blue — Mythoi

Motif

Why the sky is blue.

Mythological motifs. · Cosmogony and cosmology. · The heavens. · Creation of the heavenly bodies. · view the constellation · filed as A702.4

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India Thompson-Balys.

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Filed under Nature of the sky.

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Sky of water. The sky consists of water Sky as solid vault (tent) Sky supported by north star ("nail of the north") around which it revolves. (Cf. A665, A774.) 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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