Sky-rope. Access to upper world by means of a rope — Mythoi

Motif

Sky-rope. Access to upper world by means of a rope.

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

Attested across traditions

North American Indigenous Tales of the North American Indians , Tale 8 receipt
North American Indigenous Tales of the North American Indians , Tale 9 receipt

Filed across the traditions

India *Thompson-Balys
Chinese Graham
Japanese Ikeda
Korean Zong in-Sob 24, 227
N. Am. Indian Hatt Asiatic Influences 48ff., *Thompson Tales 283 n. 48, (California): Gayton and Newman 78
Maya Alexander Lat. Am. 153
S. Am. Indian (Warrau) Kirchoff BBAE CXLIII (3) 880, Alexander Lat. Am. 271, (Toba, Mataco): Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 448, MAFLS XL 101–103
Cape Verde Islands Parsons MAFLS XV (1) 10, 12.
general BP II 511 (Gr. No. 112)
general Fb "reb" III 25b. Icelandic: Gering Islensk Æventyri II 166f.
general Oceanic (Indonesia, Melanesia, Polynesia): Dixon 66, 156f, 160, Beckwith Myth 255, (Tonga): Gifford 20

Within the index

Filed under Access to upper world.

4 finer motifs beneath it

Sky-rope shot by means of arrow Four sky-ropes Special kinds of sky-rope Sky-basket. Ascent to or descent from upper world in a basket

Filed beside it

Ladder to upper world Ascent to upper world on arrow chain. Hero shoots arrows which join one another in the air to form a chain Tree to upper world Mountain reaches to sky Sky-window. An opening into the sky gives access to upper world Road to heaven Tower (column) to upper world Access to upper world – miscellaneous

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Murderer escapes to sky on sky rope. (Cf. F51.)

Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes

Hierarchy of worlds. A series of worlds, one above the other World-tree. Tree extending from lowest to highest world. (Cf. A878.) World-columns. Four (two, etc.) columns or supports sustain the earth Atlas. A man supports the earth on his shoulders Deluge. Inundation of whole world or section Flood from fluids of the body Flood from belly. It flows from pierced belly of monster World-fire. A conflagration destroys the earth. Sometimes (as with the flood legends) the tradition is somewhat local and does not refer to an actual destruction of the whole earth; sometimes the fire marks the end of the world Creation of man Confusion of tongues. Originally all men speak same language. Because of a sin they come to speak different languages Origin of death Distribution of tribes

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