The constellation
D1890 Magic aging. (Cf. D1857.)
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
keeps company
- Magic fountain. (Cf. D926, D927.) · D925 entry
- Sky-rope. Access to upper world by means of a rope · F51 entry
- Originator of death first sufferer. After the culture hero has instituted death, his own child dies and he repents in vain · K1681 entry
- Deluge. Inundation of whole world or section · A1010 entry
- Flood from fluids of the body · A1012 entry
- Flood from belly. It flows from pierced belly of monster · A1013 entry
- World-fire. A conflagration destroys the earth. Sometimes (as with the flood legends) the tradition is somewhat local and does not refer to an actual destruction of the whole earth; sometimes the fire marks the end of the world · A1030 entry
- Creation of man · A1200 entry
- Confusion of tongues. Originally all men speak same language. Because of a sin they come to speak different languages · A1333 entry
- Origin of death · A1335 entry
cross-ref
- Magic longevity · D1857 entry
- Premature aging as punishment. (Cf. D1890.) · Q551.12 entry
carried in tale type
- The House in the Forest · ATU 431
attested in
- Tales of the North American Indians · Tale 8
- Tales of the North American Indians · Tale 9