Entrance to other world guarded by monsters (or animals) — Mythoi

Motif

Entrance to other world guarded by monsters (or animals).

Marvels. · Other world journeys. · Miscellaneous otherworlds. · Access to otherworld. · view the constellation · filed as F150.2

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth *Cross
India Thompson-Balys
Babylonian Spence 171
Jewish *Neuman
Eskimo (Greenland) Holm 47, 74, 80, Rasmussen I 81.

Within the index

Filed under Access to otherworld.

3 finer motifs beneath it

Entrance to otherworld guarded by giant (champion) Entrance to otherworld guarded by spirits Entrance to otherworld guarded by north and south winds

Filed beside it

Way to otherworld hard to find Challenge at entrance of otherworld. The adventurer challenges or is challenged Road to otherworld Bridge to otherworld Otherworld reached by diving into water (of well or lake) Path to sun on sun's rays (eyelashes). (Cf. F152.1.2.) Journey to otherworld by clinging magically to an object Door to otherworld. (Cf. F91.) Journey to otherworld in boat Pit entrance to otherworld. (Cf. F92.) Other means to reach the otherworld

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