μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Journey to heaven (upper-world paradise).

Marvels. · Other world journeys. · The upper world. · Journey to upper world. · view the constellation · filed as F11

Filed across the traditions
  • Icelandic Hartland Science 193
  • Jewish *Neuman
  • Arabian Burton Nights II 197n.
  • India *Thompson-Balys
  • Buddhist myth Malalasekera I 606, II 294
  • Chinese Eberhard FFC CXX 183
  • Korean Zong in-Sob 171
  • Melanesia Wheeler 21f., Codrington II 1, Ker 7
  • N. Am. Indian (Thompson River) Teit MAFLS XI 53 No. 34
  • S. Am. Indian (Chiriguano) Métraux RMLP XXXIII 177.
  • general Types 800–809
  • general K. Kahler Heaven and Hell in Comparative Religion (New York, 1923). – Irish myth: *Cross
Within the index

Filed under Journey to upper world. Most references for F0 discuss this motif.

3 finer motifs beneath it
Journey to heaven in trance Man goes to heaven without dying. (Cf. D1856, F2.) Man goes to heaven for limited time
Filed beside it
Return from upper world Man taken to upper world sees all that happens on earth Journey to see deity. Usually to the upper world Man admitted into heaven but must not find fault Visit to star-world Visit to land of moon Visit to land of the sun

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