Speaking stars

Motif

Speaking stars.

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 A769.4

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In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Depth CommentaryPrimitive Culture: Researches into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art, and Custom, Chapter XV
Hermetic / AlchemicalThrice-Greatest Hermes, Volume I: Prolegomena, Chapter V: The Main Source of the Trismegistic Literature according to Manetho, High Priest of Egypt
Australian AboriginalAustralian Legendary Tales and More Australian Legendary Tales, 56The Legend of Nar-oong-owie,
Literary CrystallizationThe Vision; or, Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, Paradise 6
Literary CrystallizationThe Vision; or, Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, Paradise 9

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.

JewishNeuman.

Within the index

Filed under Creation of the stars – miscellaneous.

Filed beside it

Stars are trees growing on the clouds Stars rebel against God Stars supervised by angels Sun gives light to stars

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