The constellation
C566 Tabus of heroes
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
beneath it
- Tabu: fish hero snaring a being in the bays of his land · C566.1 entry
- Tabu: birds feeding on hero's land without leaving him something · C566.2 entry
- Tabu: women leaving hero's land without his knowing it · C566.3 entry
- Tabu: women marrying until hero has chosen their husbands · C566.4 entry
- Tabu: warriors being in hero's land without receiving challenge from him · C566.5 entry
- Tabu: sex activity for warriors. (Cf. C110.) · C566.6 entry