The four rivers of Paradise — Mythoi

Motif

The four rivers of Paradise.

Marvels. · Other world journeys. · Miscellaneous otherworlds. · Nature of the otherworld. · view the constellation · filed as F162.2.1

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Hermetic / Alchemical Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Volume I: Prolegomena , Chapter VIII: Philo of Alexandria and the Hellenistic Theology
Mesoamerican (Maya / Nahua) Popol Vuh, or Book of the Holy Assembly (Guthrie translation, serialized, truncated) , Introduction
Hermetic / Alchemical Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Volume I: Prolegomena , Chapter VII: The Myth of Man in the Mysteries

Filed across the traditions

Icelandic Boberg
Jewish Neuman
Siberian Holmberg Siberian 359.
general *Patch PMLA XXXIII 622, Other World 383 s. v. "rivers, four"
general Albright Am. Jour. Semitic Languages XXXIX 40ff.
general Gaster Thespis 171. Irish myth: *Cross

Within the index

Filed under Rivers in otherworld. (Cf. A671.2.2.6, F141.1.)

Filed beside it

Rivers of wine in otherworld Rivers of honey in otherworld Rivers of mead in otherworld Rivers of balsam and attar in otherworld Rivers of oil, milk, wine, and honey in otherworld Thirteen rivers of balm in otherworld River in paradise with terrible roar. Robs people of hearing Flowing stream forms arc over otherworld isle Jewels in streams of otherworld Perilous river in otherworld River in underworld from tears of living Underworld river from blood of sick mortals

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