Earth square with four quarters

Motif

Earth square with four quarters.

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

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Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

Irish mythCross
SiberianHolmberg Siberian 308.

Within the index

Filed under Nature and condition of the earth.

4 finer motifs beneath it

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

Filed beside it

River that flows around the world Above and below the earth are great clouds Earth wheel-shaped (flat and round)Midgard Serpent. A serpent surrounds the earth Earth-tree. Tree of life or fate Zones of earth corresponding to Zodiac

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