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A810. Primeval water: In the beginning everything is covered with water. – **Dh I 1 – 89 passim; Gaster Oldest Stories 69. – Irish myth: Cross; Icel.: MacCulloch Eddic 325 – 26; Finnish: Kalevala rune 1; Egyptian: Müller 48; Babylonian: Spence 71; Jewish: Neuman; Siberian: Holmberg Siberian 313ff.; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 786; India: *Thompson-Balys. – Batak: Voorhoeve Oversicht 63ff.; Marquesas: Handy 122; Marshall Is.: Davenport 221; Oceanic: Dixon 8 n. 7 (Maori), 18f. (Samoa), 20 (Society Is., Tonga), 105 (Admiralty Is., Polynesia, Indonesia, Micronesia), 157 (Minahassa), 158f. (Borneo), 248f. (Marshall Is., Yap), 270 (Arunta); Bushongo: Werner African 144, African: Stanley 5; S. Am. Indian (Guarayu): Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 437. – N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 279 n. 29, Alexander N. Am 260 (Haida), (Calif.): Gayton and Newman 53; Mixtec: Alexander Lat. Am. 86; Quiché: ibid. 160.
A810.2.1. Waters of heaven would engulf earth were it not for firmament. Jewish: Neuman.
A831.9. Earth created from Adam's body. Jewish: Neuman.
A835.1. Earth created from snow under divine throne. Jewish: Neuman
A837. Creator creates earth piecemeal. Jewish: Neuman.
A841. World-columns. Four (two, etc.) columns or supports sustain the earth. – Irish myth: Cross; Estonian: Loorits Grundzüge I 385, 400; Jewish: Neuman; Greek: *Grote I 70; India: Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX III No. 66. – Sumatra: Dixon 163; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 286 n. 56; Maya: Alexander Lat. Am. 154. – See also references to A665.2.1.
A844.11. Earth rests on leviathan. Jewish: Neuman.
A849.1. Earth founded on stone. Jewish: Neuman.
A849.2. Earth rests on God's arm. Jewish: Neuman.
A857. Steadying the earth. India: Thompson-Balys; Jewish: Neuman.
A872. River that flows around the world. Greek: *Grote I 220, 232, 310 (River Ocean); Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys.
A875.1. Navel of the earth. Omphalos, the central point on the earth disc. – *Holmberg Baum des Lebens 150 s.v. (Mittelpunktв); *Frazer Pausanias V 314f.; *Pease Cicero De Divinatione 353 (Bk. II 115); *Roscher Abh. kgl. SРґchs. Ges. d. Wiss. (Phil. hist. Kl.) XXIX (1913) 9, XXXI (1915) 1, Berichte d. kgl SРґchs. Ges. d. Wiss. (Phil. hist. Kl.) LXX (1918) 2; Warren Paradise Found (1885) 225ff.; Gaster Thespis 170f.; Jewish: Neuman; Norse: Boberg.
A876.1. The leviathan that surrounds the globe. Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: Neuman.
A881. Zones of earth corresponding to Zodiac. Jewish: Neuman.
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