The constellation
A420 God of water
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
beneath it
- Water-goddess · A420.1 entry
- Sea-god · A421 entry
- Waves as girls, daughters or widows of the sea-god · A423 entry
- River-god · A425 entry
- God of springs · A427 entry
keeps company
- Inexhaustible buckets as source of lakes · A920.1.1 entry
- Form of dragon · B11.2 entry
- Dragon as compound animal. (Cf. B14.) · B11.2.1 entry
- Dragon's home in bottom of sea · B11.3.1 entry
- Dragon's visit to sky · B11.3.3 entry
- Dragon's power of self-transformation · B11.5.1 entry
- Dragon's power of magic invisibility · B11.5.2 entry
- Dragon guards treasure · B11.6.2 entry
- Dragon feeds on treasure · B11.6.3 entry
- Dragon as rain-spirit · B11.7 entry
cross-ref
- Worship of water. (Cf. A420.) · V1.6.2 entry
Thompson cites
- Myths & Legends of China · Chapter VII