Perilous valley in (on way to) land of dead

Motif

Perilous valley in (on way to) land of dead.

The dead. · The soul. · Perils of the soul. · view the constellation · filed as E750.2.2

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Depth CommentaryPrimitive Culture: Researches into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art, and Custom, Chapter XIII

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.

Within the index

Filed under Perilous path for soul to world of dead. (Cf. F151.1.)

Filed beside it

Dead person of good life goes over bridge to otherworld without fear Branching tree as roadway for souls

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