μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Midgard Serpent. A serpent surrounds the earth.

Mythological motifs. · Cosmogony and cosmology. · –A899. The earth. · Nature and condition of the earth. · view the constellation · filed as A876

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Filed across the traditions
  • Icel. De la Saussaye 346, MacCulloch Eddic 279, 328, Boberg
  • Siberian Holmberg Siberian 345
  • India Thompson-Balys. – Arapaho: cf. Dorsey FM IV 13
  • Aztec Alexander Lat. Am. 57.
  • general Western Asia (general): Frobenius Erdteile VI 196
Within the index

Filed under Nature and condition of the earth.

1 finer motif beneath it
The leviathan that surrounds the globe
Filed beside it
Earth square with four quarters River that flows around the world Above and below the earth are great clouds Earth wheel-shaped (flat and round) Earth-tree. Tree of life or fate Zones of earth corresponding to Zodiac

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