Creator's giant servant puts trees to hold earth together where it slipped

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Creator's giant servant puts trees to hold earth together where it slipped.

Mythological motifs. · Cosmogony and cosmology. · –A899. The earth. · Changes in the earth. · view the constellation · filed as A857.3

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IndiaThompson-Balys.

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Filed under Steadying the earth.

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Roots created to hold land firm

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

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