Land of dead in sky — Mythoi

Motif

Land of dead in sky.

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Ghosts and revenants – miscellaneous. · Abode of the dead. · view the constellation · filed as E481.8

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

North American Indigenous Zuni Folk Tales , Tale 1
Literary Crystallization Four Plays (The Tempest, A Midsummer-Night's Dream, The Winter's Tale, King Lear) — University Press Shakespeare, ed. Sidney Lee , The Winter's Tale Act 3
Indian / Hindu (Sanskrit epic) The Ramayan of Valmiki (Griffith verse translation) , Book 3, Canto 47

Filed across the traditions

India *Thompson-Balys
Cook Islands Beckwith Myth 76.

Within the index

Filed under Land of the dead.

4 finer motifs beneath it

Account book of men summoned to death kept in heaven Moon as land of dead Venus as land of dead Dead in house of cloud

Filed beside it

Spain as land of the dead. (Cf. F130.2.) Quarrel of dead and living causes removal of dead to own land Land of dead in lower world Land of dead across water Abode of dead in mountain Beautiful land of dead. (Rosengarten) Ghost lives midway between heaven and earth Land of dead in one of the cardinal directions Icy inferno. (Cf. E481.6.1.) King of world of dead. (Cf. E481.1.1.)

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