The constellation
T145 Polygamous marriages
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The same sky, in words
filed under
- Marriage customs · T130 entry
beneath it
- Polygyny · T145.0.1 entry
- Marriage to five women, each with separate duties · T145.1 entry
- Second wife taken because first is barren · T145.2 entry
- Competition in ale-brewing between king's two wives · T145.3 entry
- Man's two wives each claim part of his body: they torment him · T145.4 entry
- Man pulled down stairs by his two wives · T145.5 entry
- Polygamist must love all his wives · T145.6 entry
- Man's senior wife ugly but diligent; his second, beautiful but lazy · T145.7 entry
- Polygamy so that head wife may be quickly replaced for wrongdoing · T145.8 entry