Milky Way is the Wild Hunt

Motif

Milky Way is the Wild Hunt.

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 A778.1.1

Filed across the traditions

German Brunk Zs. f. Vksk. XIII 184
Russian Ralston Songs of the Russian People 109
Hungarian Spolyi Zs. f. deutsche Myth. II 161
Finno-Ugric Holmberg Finno-Ugric 82
general Greek-Latin: Cook Zeus II 37.

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Filed under Milky Way a hunting party.

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