The constellation
A417 Gods of the Quarters. A god or spirit for each of the world-quarters, north, south, east, and west
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
beneath it
keeps company
- God of healing · A454 entry
- Magic fan conquers enemy. (Cf. D1077.) · D1400.1.3 entry
- Pursuit by magic fan. (Cf. D1077.) · D1431.2 entry
- Magic object causes disease · D1500.4 entry
- Person with half a body. As if body has been split in two · F525 entry
- God of the living and the dead in the otherworld · A108 entry
Thompson cites
- Myths & Legends of China · Chapter IX