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

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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.

Mythological motifs. · Cosmogony and cosmology. · –A899. The earth. · Changes in the earth. · view the constellation · filed as A855

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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.

N. Am. IndianKroeber JAFL XXI 225.

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Filed under Changes in the earth.

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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 Making the earth larger. Gradually extended during creation. See references to A812 in which this idea is always involved Hardening of the earth. At first it is soft, but is hardened by sun's rays Steadying the earth

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Earlier universe opposite of present. Everything in the earlier world was the reverse of the present world. Cf. A855

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