Earth rests on animal's back

Motif

Earth rests on animal's back.

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

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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 *Encyc. Religion and Ethics I 491b.

Within the index

Filed under Support of the earth.

12 finer motifs beneath it

Earth rests on turtle's back. (Cf. A815.)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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World-columns. Four (two, etc.) columns or supports sustain the earth Atlas. A man supports the earth on his shoulders Earth supported on post. The post has an old woman as guardian. When she is hungry the post shakes, causing earthquakes Support of the earth – miscellaneous

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Earthquakes from movements of subterranean monster. (Cf. A844)

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