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Motifs — first 20 of 296
- Mortal transfigured to god on mountain top. A117.4
- God's voice shatters mountain. A139.5.1
- Home of gods on high mountain. Mt. Olympus. A151.1
- God speaks from mountain. A182.3.0.5
- Deity of particular mountain. (Cf. A495.) A418
- Angel of mountains. A418.1
- Mountain-god. A495
- Culture hero asleep in mountain. A571
- Universe from parts of creator's body. Ymir makes the world from his members – mountains from bones, cliffs from teeth, heavens from skull, etc. A614
- Upper world (heaven) as a mountain. The sky is the hollowed under side of the mountain. A662
- Mountain supports sky. A665.3
- Four mountains support sky. A665.3.1
- Rugged, icy mountains in hell. A671.3.2
- Mountain where sun goes through. A722.7
- Earth originates from fish brought from bottom of sea. The fish is hacked with knives; hence, mountains. A811.1
- Stone emerges from primeval water. Devil sits on the stone, which becomes a mountain. A816.1
- Opposite of present. Everything on the earth – courses of rivers, height of mountains, human reproduction, etc. – are at first the reverse of the present condition. A855
- Creator's giant servant puts a valley where earth's crust is heavy and a mountain where it is light so as to stabilize it. A857.2
- Mountain at center of earth. A875.1.1
- Mountains push water westward. A914