μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Rising and falling sky. Sky rises and falls at horizon, giving periodic access to the other world.

Marvels. · Extraordinary places and things. · Extraordinary sky and weather phenomena. · view the constellation · filed as F791

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“For instance, one of these seven visitors was wonderfully enamoured of a fine country, and expressed a de- sire to remain there, and to live long; whereupon, at Glooscap’s direction, Earthquake took him and stood him up, and he be- came a cedar-tree.'® When the wind blew through its boughs, they were bent and broken with great fracas, — making a thunder-storm that rolled far and wide over the country, ac- companied by strong winds,…”

Tales of the North American Indians, Tale 3 · served from our shelf  receiptuncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan

Attested across traditions
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

  • BuriatHolmberg Siberian 308
  • N. Am. Indian*Thompson Tales 275 n. 15a, Hatt Asiatic Influences 78ff.
Within the index

Filed under Extraordinary sky and weather phenomena.

1 finer motif beneath it
Sky lowers on people
Filed beside it
Artificial heavens. Placed on pillars of iron. Seven heavens. (1) glass, sun, moon, stars, (2) iron with lake in it, (3) tin with precious stones rolling about (thunder), (4) lead, (5) copper, (6) silver, (7) goldArtificial heavenly bodiesExtraordinary cloudDragon seen in skyFire from heaven kills people
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Creator's grandmother. Casually mentioned in the course of the creation mythDivinity's departure for westCulture hero's (divinity's) expected return. Divinity or hero is expected to return at the proper time and rescue his people from their misfortunes. Often joined with A571Boneless man turned over to produce seasonsTabu: looking into box (Pandora)Magic airshipsMagic canoe. (Cf. D1121.)Canoe made by magicWaters magically divide and closeLove-compelling man sickens of bargain. A man given the power of making all women love him is smothered to death by themModesty brings rewardKind and unkind. Churlish person disregards requests of old person (animal) and is punished. Courteous person (often youngest brother or sister) complies and is rewarded

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