Chariot from heaven takes couple to live with sages in the Great Bear

Motif

Chariot from heaven takes couple to live with sages in the Great Bear.

Mythological motifs. · Cosmogony and cosmology. · The heavens. · The stars. Note: the question of implicit meanings assumed by the proponents of "astralmythology" is not discussed here; only explicit statements in original sources are considered. · Creation and condition of the stars. · view the constellation · filed as A761.2

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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.

IndiaThompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Ascent to stars. People or animals ascend to the sky and become stars.

Filed beside it

River taken to sky becomes star. Eridanos Stars as transformed lovers Stars as fires in the hearths of ghosts Stars are men peering through holes in sky Stars thought of as living beings

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