The constellation
T421 Man marries his aunt (mother's sister)
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
keeps company
- Birth from semen thrown on ground · T541.10 entry
- Local deluges · A1011 entry
- Determination of seasons · A1150 entry
- Plant characteristics from tears. (Cf. A2755.3.1, A2755.3.2.) · A2731.2 entry
- Origin of amber in poplar trees. (Cf. A2731.2.) · A2755.3.1 entry
- Origin of gum in myrrh tree. (Cf. A2731.2.) · A2755.3.2 entry
- Transformation: man to nightingale · D151.3 entry
- Sea produced by magic · D2151.1.1 entry
- Cecrops. Body compounded of man and serpent · F526.6 entry
Thompson cites
- The Library (Bibliotheca) · BOOK III, ch. XIV