The constellation
F81 Descent to lower world of dead (Hell, Hades)
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The same sky, in words
filed under
- Journey to lower world · F80 entry
beneath it
- Orpheus. Journey to land of dead to bring back person from the dead · F81.1 entry
- Journey to hell to recover devil's contract · F81.2 entry
- Journey to hell to circumcize child · F81.3 entry
- Journey to hell to retrieve soul of mother · F81.4 entry
- Journey to lower world to get treasures · F81.5 entry
- Souls redeemed from hell in shape of sheep · F81.6 entry
keeps company
- Tabu: drinking · C250 entry
- Orpheus. Journey to land of dead to bring back person from the dead · F81.1 entry
- River entrance to lower world · F93.1 entry
- Dead place net across river to prevent living man from returning to earth. (Cf. F105.) · F93.1.1 entry
- Quest to lower world for lost words · H1276 entry
- Quest for unknown magic words. Hero seeks them on the heads of swallows, the necks of swans, the backs of geese, and the tongues of reindeer · H1382.1 entry
- Suitors contest with bride's father in shooting · H331.4.1 entry
- Tabu: profanely calling up spirit (devil, etc.) · C10 entry
- Tabu: eating in other world · C211 entry
- Looking tabu · C300 entry
Thompson cites
- The Kalevala · Rune XVI
- The Library (Bibliotheca) · BOOK II, ch. VI
attested in
- Tales of the North American Indians · Tale 55