The constellation
D1553 Symplegades. Rocks that clash together at intervals. (Cf. D931.)
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
keeps company
- Speaking ship. (Cf. D1123.) · D1610.11 entry
- Ship refuses to move. (Cf. D1123.) · D1654.6 entry
- Invulnerability for single day · D1845.1 entry
- Rejuvenation by boiling. (Cf. D1865.) · D1885 entry
- Rejuvenation by burning · D1886 entry
- Sleepless watcher magically put to sleep. Usually has a magic watchful eye, which remains awake while his many other eyes sleep. (Argus) · D1961 entry
- Transformation and disenchantment at will · D630 entry
- Power of self-transformation received from a god · D630.2 entry
- Resuscitation of wife by husband giving up half his remaining life. (Sometimes vice versa) · E165 entry
- Man of bronze. (Talos). Has single vein from neck to ankle and bronze nail at end of vein. This is the only vulnerable spot · F521.3.1 entry
cross-ref
Thompson cites
- The Library (Bibliotheca) · BOOK I, ch. IX