How ancient is lore? Southeast Asia speaks up.(RESEARCH NOTE)(Essay)

Asian Folklore Studies | April 1, 2007| | Copyright

THE IDEA that the sky is made out of stone appears in folk and religious traditions all around our planet. I have discussed this idea, and briefly proposed that another idea--the' stone falling from sky" motif--offers a key to understanding the wide distribution of the "sky of stone" (METEVELIS 2000). (1) Stones do indeed fall down from the sky all the time. Occasionally people see them fall, even collect them from strewnfields while their brimstony rinds are still hot and smelly from atmospheric passage.

In fact, Homo has been witnessing skyfall events since before ...

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