Spider-web sky-rope. (Cf. F101.7.) Spider makes web on which ascent or descent is accomplished.
Marvels. · Other world journeys. · The upper world. · Access to upper world. · view the constellation · filed as F51.1.1
Motif
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.
- IndiaThompson-Balys
- N. Am. Indian*Thompson Tales 332 n. 201
- AfricaWerner African 132ff., (Baluyi, Basubiya, Congo, Angola): Chatelain 135, (Fjort): Dennett 74 No. 16.
- general Oceanic (Hawaii, New Zealand, New Hebrides, Caroline Is.): Dixon 59, 66, (Maori): Clark 163f., (Hawaii): Beckwith Myth 254f., 530
- general Arawak and Carib: Alexander Lat. Am. Myth. 274