The four rivers of Paradise.
Marvels. · Other world journeys. · Miscellaneous otherworlds. · Nature of the otherworld. · view the constellation · filed as F162.2.1
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
- Hermetic / AlchemicalThrice-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 / AlchemicalThrice-Greatest Hermes, Volume I: Prolegomena, Chapter VII: The Myth of Man in the Mysteries
Scholars’ trail — 6references
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.
- IcelandicBoberg
- JewishNeuman
- SiberianHolmberg 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