Sky immortal, changing skin like a snake

Motif

Sky immortal, changing skin like a snake.

Mythological motifs. · Cosmogony and cosmology. · The heavens. · Creation of the heavenly bodies. · view the constellation · filed as A702.9

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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.

S. Am. Indian (Bacairi)Lévi-Strauss BBAE CXLIII (3) 348.

Within the index

Filed under Nature of the sky.

Filed beside it

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 Sky measured by bird Clouds as props of the sky Sky is black because once raised by means of dirty stick

Travels with

Nature of clouds (covered with skin). (Cf. A702.9.)

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