Earth-tree. Tree of life or fate

Motif

Earth-tree. Tree of life or fate.

Mythological motifs. · Cosmogony and cosmology. · –A899. The earth. · Nature and condition of the earth. · view the constellation · filed as A878

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In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

GreekHesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica, V. TO APHRODITE

Scholars’ trail — 6references

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
EgyptianMüller 36.
general *Wünsche "Das Wasser des Lebens in den Märchen der Völker" Zs. f. vgl. Litteraturgeschichte XIII 166ff.
general **Holmberg Baum
general Dh I 6 (five eastern branches given to man, others forbidden)
general *Albright Am. Jour. Semitic Langs. XXXIX 161. – *Handwb. d. Abergl. IX Nachträge 150ff., 200. – Icel.: MacCulloch Eddic 331ff. (Yggdrasil)

Within the index

Filed under Nature and condition of the earth.

4 finer motifs beneath it

Stream of paradise from roots of world-tree Lake of milk by tree of life Animals at earth-tree Earth-tree furnishes health-giving and hunger-satisfying sap

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)Midgard Serpent. A serpent surrounds the earth Zones of earth corresponding to Zodiac

Travels with

World-tree. Tree extending from lowest to highest world. (Cf. A878.)

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