The constellation
A412 City-gods
A constellation is one motif’s neighborhood in the record — the story-shapes filed around it, the tale types that carry it, and the texts where it is witnessed, every line a receipted link. Click a motif to travel. Click a text to read it. The entry · wander
● motif
● tale type
● on the shelf
● attested
The same sky, in words
filed under
- Local gods · A410 entry
keeps company
- Creation of the universe · A600 entry
- Wild man as king of animals · B240.3 entry
- Unusual animal as riding-horse · B557 entry
- Marriage to person in dog form. (Cf. B635.4, D141.) · B641.1 entry
- Marriage to dog in human form · B651.4 entry
- Jointed snake can join its segments when it is broken into pieces · B765.7 entry
- Tabu: looking under certain bell too soon · C326 entry
- Journey to Land of Women. Island of women, land of maidens, country of the Amazons, etc · F112 entry
- Spirits and demons (general) · F400 entry
- Remarkable persons. Extraordinary size, form, appearance, or habits · F500 entry
Thompson cites
- Myths & Legends of China · Chapter XVI