Sky immortal, changing skin like a snake — Mythoi

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

Filed across the traditions

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 (Thompson’s cf.)

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

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