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Group No. 8


Letter

A. Mythological Motifs

Group No.

A650 – A699

Group name

Nature of the universe

Description

A651.1.4. Seven heavens. A series of seven upper worlds. — Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: *Neuman; Hindu: Penzer VII 246; Mohammedan: Hartland Science 224; Siberian: Holmberg Siberian 400f. — Sumatra: Dixon 160.
 
A651.1.7. Ten heavens. Jewish: Neuman; Maori: Clark 186; Tonga: Gifford 18; Tahiti: Henry 164, 343.
 
A651.1.8. Series of upper worlds — miscellaneous. Jewish: *Neuman.
 
A654. Primary elements of universe. (Earth, air, fire, water, etc.). — Jewish: *Neuman; Chinese: Werner 84. Cf. the early Greek philosophers.
 
A657.2. Heaven and earth touch each other at east, west, and south. Jewish: Neuman.
 
A658.2. Five hundred years travel across universe. Jewish: Neuman.
 
A659. The universe as a whole — miscellaneous. Jewish: Neuman.
 
A659.1. Music of the spheres. Jewish: Neuman. (The general philosophical theory of the music of the spheres is not treated here).
 
A661.0.2. Music in heaven. India: Thompson-Balys; Jewish: Neuman.
 
A671.0.1.1. Other locations for hell. Jewish: Neuman.
 
A671.0.2. Creation of hell. Lithuanian: Balys Legends Nos. 2, 5, 7; Jewish: Neuman.
 
A671.0.3. Entrance to cave as gate to hell. Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: Neuman. (Cf. A671.5.).
 
A671.0.5. Size and arrangements of hell. Jewish: Neuman; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 786.
 
A671.2.2.1. Rivers of poison in hell. Irish myth: Cross; Icel.: MacCulloch Eddic 319f.; Jewish: Neuman.
 
A671.2.2.6. Other rivers in hell. Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: Neuman (A671.2.29).
 
A671.2.9. Scorpions in hell. Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: Neuman.

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