Sky measured by bird

Motif

Sky measured by bird.

Mythological motifs. · Cosmogony and cosmology. · The heavens. · Creation of the heavenly bodies. · view the constellation · filed as A702.6

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

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Within the index

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.)Why the sky is blue Marriage of earth and sky 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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