Origin of Orion

Motif

Origin of Orion.

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. · Origin of particular stars. · view the constellation · filed as A772

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In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Scholars’ trail — 10references

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.

GreekFox 249f.
EgyptianMüller 57
India*Thompson-Balys. – Siberian: Holmberg Siberian 429
LivonianLoorits FFC LXVI 81 No. 12. – S. Am. Indian (Tarahumare and Tepehuane): Alexander N. Am. 176
Africa (Tonga)Gifford 100.
general Andree Ethnographische Parallelen (1878) 108
general *RTP XXI 102 and references to earlier volumes
general *Handwb. d. Abergl. IX Nachträge 684f. Icel.: MacCulloch Eddic 177
general (Amazon) Alexander Lat. Am. 307
general N. American Indian (California): Gayton and Newman 67

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Filed under Origin of particular stars.

Filed beside it

Origin of the Great Bear (Ursa Major)Origin of the Pleiades Origin of the North Star. (Cf. A702.3.)Origin of Hyades Origin of constellation Lyra. Greek (Orpheus's lyre)Origin of constellation Scorpio Origin of the Milky Way Origin of stars – miscellaneous

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