Mountain reaches to sky

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

IndicThe 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 CommentaryPrimitive Culture: Researches into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art, and Custom, Chapter XVI

Scholars’ trail — 8references

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.

EgyptianMüller 176
MaoriClark 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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