Earth from serpent's head. Earth reared on head of serpent floating in primeval water.
Mythological motifs. · Cosmogony and cosmology. · –A899. The earth. · –A839. Creation of the earth. · Primeval water. · view the constellation · filed as A815.1
Motif
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.
- general Borneo, Sumatra: Dixon 159f.
Within the index
Filed under Earth from turtle's back. Earth erected on back of a turtle floating in primeval water. (Cf. A844.1.)