The constellation
H1290 Quests to the other world – miscellaneous motifs
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
filed near
- Quest to the world of rakshasas · H1289.6 entry
- Quest to land where every raja dies · H1289.5 entry
- Quest for thread from lotus stalks growing on Vishnu's navel · H1289.4.1 entry
- Quest to see deity · H1289.4 entry
- Questions asked on way to other world · H1291 entry
- Answers found in other world to questions propounded on the way. (Cf. H1278, H1282, H1283, H1284.) · H1292 entry
- Question (propounded on quest): Why has spring gone dry? Answer: Animal to be removed from its water-vein · H1292.1 entry
- Question (propounded on quest): Why does no one ever drink water of two certain wells? Answer: In their last birth they had been two Brahman women and whenever they wanted to give alms they gave only to each other · H1292.1.1 entry