Making the earth larger. Gradually extended during creation. See references to A812 in which this idea is always involved — Mythoi

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Making the earth larger. Gradually extended during creation. See references to A812 in which this idea is always involved.

Mythological motifs. · Cosmogony and cosmology. · –A899. The earth. · Changes in the earth. · view the constellation · filed as A853

Filed across the traditions

Siberian Holmberg Siberian 317. – Oceanic: Dixon 29
India Thompson-Balys. – N. Am. Indian: *Thompson Tales 279 n. 30.

Within the index

Filed under Changes in the earth.

1 finer motif beneath it

Doubling size of the earth. Increase of population necessitates change

Filed beside it

How the earth became oblong. God the Father situated on one side of the earth, the Son on the other Making the earth smaller. Earth made too large. God learns from devil by trickery how to make it smaller Opposite of present. Everything on the earth – courses of rivers, height of mountains, human reproduction, etc. – are at first the reverse of the present condition Hardening of the earth. At first it is soft, but is hardened by sun's rays Steadying the earth

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