Milky Way as path of a bird of passage

Motif

Milky Way as path of a bird of passage.

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 A778.7

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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 434
general S. Am. Indian (Pañ'): Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 93, (Chiriguano): Métraux ibid. 483.

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Filed under Origin of the Milky Way.

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