Rope of god's own hair

Motif

Rope of god's own hair.

Marvels. · Other world journeys. · The upper world. · Access to upper world. · view the constellation · filed as F51.1.5

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

Within the index

Filed under Special kinds of sky-rope.

1 finer motif beneath it

Heavenly being's hair as sky-rope

Filed beside it

Spider-web sky-rope. (Cf. F101.7.) Spider makes web on which ascent or descent is accomplished Vine as sky-rope Stalk as sky-rope Chaff sky-rope Iron chain hanging from heaven Sky-rope of mucus

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