Milky Way as a river

Motif

Milky Way as a river.

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 A778.3

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In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

SiberianHolmberg Siberian 435
JapaneseIkeda. Blackfoot: De Josselyn de Jong Blackfoot Texts 29ff.

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Filed under Origin of the Milky Way.

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