Earth rests on turtle's back. (Cf. A815.)

Motif

Earth rests on turtle's back. (Cf. A815.)

Mythological motifs. · Cosmogony and cosmology. · –A899. The earth. · Support of the earth. · view the constellation · filed as A844.1

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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.

Siberian*Holmberg Siberian 327
India*Thompson-Balys. – N. Am. Indian: *Thompson Tales 279 n. 31.

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Earth supported by bull Earth supported by fish Earth supported by frog Earth rests on the horns of a bull who rests upon a fish Earth rests on tortoise, serpent, elephant. (Cf. A1145.1.)Earth rests on elephant's back Earth rests on cobra's head Earth supported on great boar's tusk Earth supported on vast number of birds' legs Earth rests on leviathan Serpent supports the earth. (Cf. A844.6.)

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Earth from turtle's back. Earth erected on back of a turtle floating in primeval water. (Cf. A844.1.)

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