The constellation
H900 Tasks imposed. A person's prowess is tested by assigning him certain tasks (usually impossible or extremely difficult) to be performed either to escape punishment or to receive a valuable reward
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
- Tasks imposed on pain of death · H901 entry
- Task assigned the Gods · H902 entry
keeps company
- Wrestling match: Antaeus. Giant invincible in wrestling because with each contact with earth his strength is renewed · K12.3 entry
- Punishment of Prometheus. Chained to a mountain with eagle preying on his vitals, which are restored nightly. (Punishment for theft of fire.) · Q501.4 entry
- Periodic sacrifices to a monster · S262 entry
- Sacrifice of strangers · S265 entry
- Hound of hell. Cerberus (monstrous dog) guards the bridge to the lower world · A673 entry
- Hind with golden horns · B101.4 entry
- Two-headed dog · B15.1.2.1.4 entry
- Hydra: nine-headed monster. Middle head immortal · B15.1.2.8.1 entry
- Man-eating mares · B16.1.3.1 entry
- Centaur: man-horse. Trunk and head of man, body of horse · B21 entry
cross-ref
Thompson cites
- The Library (Bibliotheca) · BOOK II, ch. V