Cairn marks burial place

Motif

Cairn marks burial place.

Mythological motifs. · Topographical features of the earth. · Land features. · Origin of particular places. · view the constellation · filed as A988

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

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Filed under Origin of particular places.

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Origin of valleys or hollows Pillars of Hercules at Gibraltar set up by Hercules. (Cf. A901.)Bridge of the Gods. A conflict of the gods breaks a primeval bridge and thus causes a rapid in a river (the Columbia River at The Dalles, Oregon)Origin of particular places – miscellaneous

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