Old woman supports earth on her head.
Mythological motifs. · Cosmogony and cosmology. · –A899. The earth. · Support of the earth. · view the constellation · filed as A842.2
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
- Indic The Mahābhārata , Book 3, Section CLXXXVIII
- Indic The Mahābhārata , Book 5, Section CXXX
- Indic The Mahābhārata , Book 6, Section LXVIII
- Indic The Mahābhārata , Book 5, Section CIII
- Mesoamerican (Maya / Nahua) Popol Vuh, or Book of the Holy Assembly (Guthrie translation, serialized, truncated) , Introduction
Filed across the traditions
- India Thompson-Balys.
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