Stars thought of as living beings

Motif

Stars thought of as living beings.

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 A761.6

Filed across the traditions

S. Am. Indian (Warrau) Kirchoff BBAE CXLIII (3) 879.

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 Chariot from heaven takes couple to live with sages in the Great Bear Stars as transformed lovers Stars as fires in the hearths of ghosts Stars are men peering through holes in sky

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