Mountain reaches to sky — Mythoi

Motif

Mountain reaches to sky.

Marvels. · Other world journeys. · The upper world. · Access to upper world. · view the constellation · filed as F55

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Indic The Mahābhārata , Book 7, Section LXXX
Indian / Hindu (Sanskrit epic) The Ramayan of Valmiki (Griffith verse translation) , Book 6, Canto 2
Vedic (Indian / Sanskrit) The Hymns of the Rigveda , 5.54
Depth Commentary Primitive Culture: Researches into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art, and Custom , Chapter XVI

Filed across the traditions

Egyptian Müller 176
Maori Clark 158
Africa (Ekoi) Talbot 184.
general *Holmberg Baum 39f., 42f.
general *Patch PMLA XXXIII 617 n. 56
general MacCulloch Childhood 437
general Wimberly 405. German: *Siuts Jenseitsmotive 57
general S. Am. Indian (Mundurucu): Alexander Lat. Am. 308, (Ackawoi): ibid. 270

Within the index

Filed under Access to upper world.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Mountain stretches to sky Rocks piled up to sky

Filed beside it

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

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