Milky Way as a road

Motif

Milky Way as a road.

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 A778.2

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In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Greco-RomanThe Metamorphoses of Ovid, Book 1
Depth CommentaryPrimitive Culture: Researches into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art, and Custom, Chapter IX
Literary CrystallizationThe Vision; or, Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, Paradise 25
Literary CrystallizationParadise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books, Book 7

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.

S. Am. Indian (Toba)Métraux MAFLS XL 20, Métraux BBAE CXLIII (1) 365.

Within the index

Filed under Origin of the Milky Way.

1 finer motif beneath it

Milky Way as path of souls (demons)

Filed beside it

Origin of Magellanic Clouds Milky Way a hunting party Milky Way as a river Milky Way as a stitched seam in the sky Milky Way as milk from breast of a woman Milky Way as the sperma of the gods Milky Way as path of a bird of passage Milky Way is smoke (ashes)Milky Way as race track Abyss at end of Milky Way

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