μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

  • GreekGrote I 4, 310
  • HinduKeith 16
  • SiberianHolmberg Siberian 308.
Within the index

Filed under Nature and condition of the earth.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Navel of the earth. Omphalos, the central point on the earth discWell in the midst of earth from which eleven rivers originate. (Cf. A871.1.)
Filed beside it
Earth square with four quartersRiver that flows around the worldAbove and below the earth are great cloudsMidgard Serpent. A serpent surrounds the earthEarth-tree. Tree of life or fateZones of earth corresponding to Zodiac

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