μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Origin of the Milky Way.

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

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In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 7references

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.

  • ArmenianAnanikian 37
  • HawaiiBeckwith Myth 74
  • general *Andree Ethnographische Parallelen (1878) 109
  • general *Basset RTP XXII 167 and references to earlier volumes
  • general *Fb "mælkevej" II 642. – Welsh: MacCulloch Celtic 100
  • general Bulgarian: ibid. 49. – Ekoi: Talbot 366
  • general S. Am. Indian (Yuracari): Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 503f.
Within the index

Filed under Origin of particular stars.

11 finer motifs beneath it
Origin of Magellanic CloudsMilky Way a hunting partyMilky Way as a roadMilky Way as a riverMilky Way as a stitched seam in the skyMilky Way as milk from breast of a womanMilky Way as the sperma of the godsMilky Way as path of a bird of passageMilky Way is smoke (ashes)Milky Way as race trackAbyss at end of Milky Way
Filed beside it
Origin of the Great Bear (Ursa Major)Origin of OrionOrigin of the PleiadesOrigin of the North Star. (Cf. A702.3.)Origin of HyadesOrigin of constellation Lyra. Greek (Orpheus's lyre)Origin of constellation ScorpioOrigin of stars – miscellaneous

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