Four streams from four corners of earth

Motif

Four streams from four corners of earth.

Mythological motifs. · Cosmogony and cosmology. · –A899. The earth. · Nature and condition of the earth. · view the constellation · filed as A871.1

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general Patch PMLA XXXIII 623 n. 77.

Within the index

Filed under Earth square with four quarters.

Filed beside it

Taprobane at eastern end of the world Unextinguishable fire at end of earth Four rivers, rising in paradise, water primitive world

Travels with

Well in the midst of earth from which eleven rivers originate. (Cf. A871.1.)

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