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Why earth becomes warm and wet: two huge copper vessels steaming over fire are underneath earth.

Mythological motifs. · Cosmogony and cosmology. · –A899. The earth. · Changes in the earth. · view the constellation · filed as A857.1

Filed across the traditions
  • India Thompson-Balys.
Within the index

Filed under Steadying the earth.

Filed beside it
Creator's giant servant puts a valley where earth's crust is heavy and a mountain where it is light so as to stabilize it Creator's giant servant puts trees to hold earth together where it slipped

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