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) gold

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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) gold.

Marvels. · Extraordinary places and things. · Extraordinary sky and weather phenomena. · view the constellation · filed as F792

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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.

Jewish*Neuman.
general Gaster Exempla 186 No. 4

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Filed under Extraordinary sky and weather phenomena.

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Rising and falling sky. Sky rises and falls at horizon, giving periodic access to the other world Artificial heavenly bodies Extraordinary cloud Dragon seen in sky Fire from heaven kills people

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