μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

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

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

Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth *Cross
  • Jewish Neuman
  • Chinese Werner 225 → on our shelf: Myths & Legends of China, Chapter VII
  • Melanesian Codrington 365
  • Indonesia Voorhoeve 64, (Sumatra, Kei Island): Dixon 156
  • Tonga Gifford 149
  • Koryak Jochelson JE VI 301, 307
  • Eskimo (Labrador) Hawkes GSCan XIV 153, (West Hudson Bay): Boas BAM XV 339, (Central Eskimo): Boas RBAE VI 599, (Greenland): Rink 468, Rasmussen III 165, 170, Holm 80
  • N. Am. Indian *Thompson Tales 278 n. 28, Hatt Asiatic Influences 64
  • S. Am. Indian (Warrau) Alexander Lat. Am. 271, Kirchoff BBAE CXLIII (3) 880, (Mojo): ibid (3) 424, (Sherente): Lowie ibid. (1) 515.
  • general Gaster Thespis 181
Within the index

Filed under Access to upper world.

3 finer motifs beneath it
Sky-window from digging or uprooting plant (tree) in upper world Bird pecks hole in sky-roof to give access to upper world Sky-window at horizon
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 Mountain reaches to sky Road to heaven Tower (column) to upper world Access to upper world – miscellaneous
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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