Yu.E. Berezkin, E.N. Duvakin

Thematic classification and distribution of folklore and mythological motifs by area

Analytical catalogue

Introduction
Bibliography
Ethnicities and habitats

J58B. The door to heaven .18.43.72.

Using a chain of arrows, the sky or sun is pulled lower or moved higher, or a hole is made in the sky.

Australia. Aranda [the Ntjikantja brothers threw a bridge of darts into the sky and pulled it up; related to the origin of the first death]: Waterman 1987, No. 3215:88.

The coast is the Plateau. Kalapuya [the monster can't stand daylight; the Coyote shoots at the sun, makes a chain of arrows, pulls the sun to the ground for it; the monster comes out of the cave; the Coyote releases the sun; the monster dies]: Judson 1910:116-117 in Clark 1953:101-102.

Chaco. Chamacoko [a woman's sons or husband kill her eel lover; sons shoot arrows into the sky, open a door to the sky, or pull the sky closer to the ground; the hole closes when the leg closes the youngest of the three brothers is still hanging down; the mother sends the birds to cut off her leg; paints the birds with colorful blood spilled out of her leg]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1987a, No. 75-77:257, 266, 271; nivacle [younger The creator's brother or assistant makes a chain of arrows to open the door to the sky]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1987b, No. 20-21:74-79.