Evidence
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| Tradition | Source | Passage | Confidence | Evidence | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | PREFACE / JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM; lines 1319-1499 | high | The duck builds a nest, lays six golden eggs and one iron egg, warms them for three days, and the water-mother's knee and shoulders become burning hot. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | DR. J.D. BUCK, / AN ENCOURAGING AND UNSELFISH FRIEND, AND TO HIS AFFECTIONATE FAMILY, / THESE PAGES ARE GRATEFULLY INSCRIBED. / PREFACE; lines 680-769 | high | The duck in the Kalevala or eagle in other traditions lays the mundane egg; Puhuri the north-wind is sometimes a gigantic eagle; the didapper foretells rain; Linnunrata is the bird-path of the Milky-way; the cuckoo is sacred and fertilizes earth with song. | record |
| Sufi | The Mesnevi | PREFACE. / IN THE NAME OF GOD, / THE ALL-MERCIFUL, THE VERY-COMPASSIONATE. / VIII.; lines 11014-11121 | medium | Philosophic opinion is given that the sky is an eggshell and the globe a yolk; a questioner asks how the ball rests within the spheres like a lamp in a dome. | record |
| Sufi | The Mystics of Islam | ILLUMINATION AND ECSTASY / CHAPTER III / THE GNOSIS / THE REVELATION OF THE SEA; lines 2193-2283 | high | Creeds and rituals are described as veils or barriers; a poem calls this world and the next an egg, faith and unbelief the white and yolk, and says the bird of Unity spreads its wings when religion and infidelity disappear. | record |