Sky-window from digging or uprooting plant (tree) in upper world — Mythoi

Motif

Sky-window from digging or uprooting plant (tree) in upper world.

Marvels. · Other world journeys. · The upper world. · Access to upper world. · view the constellation · filed as F56.1

Filed across the traditions

Chinese Werner 224f. → on our shelf: Myths & Legends of China, Chapter VII
N. Am. Indian *Thompson Tales 332 n. 197.

Within the index

Filed under Sky-window. An opening into the sky gives access to upper world.

Filed beside it

Bird pecks hole in sky-roof to give access to upper world Sky-window at horizon

Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes

Combat between god of light and dragon of ocean God of water Inexhaustible buckets as source of lakes Form of dragon Dragon as compound animal. (Cf. B14.) Dragon's home in bottom of sea Dragon's visit to sky Dragon's power of self-transformation Dragon's power of magic invisibility Dragon guards treasure Dragon feeds on treasure Dragon as rain-spirit

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