The constellation
H770 Riddles of explanation
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
- Riddle: why is the hair gray before the beard? (It is twenty years older.) · H771 entry
- Riddle: why are there more days than nights? (The moon turns some nights into days.) · H772 entry
- Riddle: why are there more living than dead? (There are some of the dead of whom we still speak.) · H773 entry
- Riddle: why are there more women than men? (Some women make women [i.e., weaklings] of their husbands.) · H774 entry