Journey to see deity. Usually to the upper world

Motif

Journey to see deity. Usually to the upper world.

Marvels. · Other world journeys. · The upper world. · Journey to upper world. · view the constellation · filed as F12

Scholars’ trail — 5references

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.

India*Thompson-Balys
TuamotuStimson MS (T-G. 3/79)
Africa (Ekoi)Talbot 18, 184.
general *Type 460A
general *Aarne FFC XXIII 124. Jewish: *Neuman

Within the index

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

4 finer motifs beneath it

Journey to sky-god Grieving mortal taken by god of the dead up to otherworld to identify his son, who has just died Men taken by Brahma to Siva so they can petition him personally Journey to heaven to see Buddha

Filed beside it

Return from upper world Man taken to upper world sees all that happens on earth Journey to heaven (upper-world paradise)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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