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Ethnicities and habitats

B77C. The serpent pushed the sky away.. 20.67.

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snake-shaped creature pushes the sky away from the ground. See motif B77.

Micronesia-Polynesia. Gilbert Islands [eel-Milky Way]; Nauru [Hambrush 1914:273ff; Areop Enap ("big spider") found a tridacna, discovered it, told the Riki caterpillar to raise the upper leaf, it turned into the sky; the lower one became earth; he turned the other two shells into the moon and sun]: Dobbin 2011:200; Tuvalu Islands [sea serpent; eel].

Bolivia - Guaporé. Tacana [a rainbow snake with heads at both ends of her body, a jagged back)]; chimane [Iguana is the Milky Way].