Four earth-nails — Mythoi

Motif

Four earth-nails.

Mythological motifs. · Cosmogony and cosmology. · –A899. The earth. · Support of the earth. · view the constellation · filed as A841.4

Filed across the traditions

India Thompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under World-columns. Four (two, etc.) columns or supports sustain the earth.

Filed beside it

The four world-columns fastened immovably by two gods with their mother's hairs Four world-cords. Earth is suspended from the sky by cords at four corners Four maidens as earth-supports. One is at each of the cardinal points. (Cf. A842.) Twelve iron pillars steady the earth

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