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Motifs — first 20 of 870
- Creator from below. God rises from beneath (the center of the spiritual world) and creates the world. A25
- Angel of sea rebels at world's creation; put to death by God. A54.1
- Satan attempts to create another world. A63.8
- Creator goes to make afterworld. A78
- God of the living and the dead in the otherworld. A108
- Deity emerges from darkness of underworld. A115.4
- Giant god goes with three steps through the world. A133.2.1
- God represented as king, world as his kingdom. A137.10
- God of the upper world. A200
- Witch-woman of upper world. A205
- Thunder spirit lives in world below earth. A284.3.2
- God of the underworld. A300
- Goddess of underworld. (Cf. A310.1.) A300.1
- Demigod of underworld. A305
- Warrior chieftain of underworld. A308
- God of the world of the dead. A310
- Goddess of world of the dead. A310.1
- Goddess divides time between upper and lower worlds. Persephone spends six months on earth and six in Hades. A316
- Demon god lies in wait for spirits descending to underworld. A317
- Gods of the Quarters. A god or spirit for each of the world-quarters, north, south, east, and west. A417
Episodes
- Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes · Tale 71 71.— HOW SIX MEN GOT ON IN THE WORLD.
- Myths of the Cherokee · ( Josmogonic Myths — Myth 1 i. HOW THE WORLD WAS MADE
- Tales of the North American Indians · Tale 1 I. SEDNA, MISTRESS OF THE UNDERWORLD:
- The Hermetic Museum, Restored and Enlarged · Tract 7: The Glory of the World, or Table of Paradise
- Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None · Chapter 3 III. BACKWORLDSMEN.
Tale types
- ATU 1355B 'I Can See the Whole World!' (previously Adulteress Tells her Lover, 'I Can See the Whole World')
- ATU 1889H Submarine Otherworld
- ATU 20C The Animals Flee in Fear of the End of the World
- ATU 471 The Bridge to the Otherworld
- ATU 476** Midwife in the Underworld
- ATU 513A Six Go through the Whole World
- ATU 653A The Rarest Thing in the World
- ATU 770 The Nun who Saw the World
- ATU 840B* The Judgments in this World