μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Supreme god. One god chief of all other gods. (Often not worshipped as other gods are.)

Mythological motifs. · Gods. · The gods in general. · Deity. · view the constellation · filed as A101

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Filed across the traditions
  • Jewish Neuman
  • Greek Fox 153, – *Grote I 57f.
  • Assyrian Spence 206ff.
  • Babylonian ibid. 199ff.
  • Hindu Keith 21f.
  • India Thompson-Balys
  • Buddhist myth Malalasekera I 148, 309
  • Siberian Karjalainen FFC XLIV 259, 268ff.
  • Armenian Ananikian 11, 14, 37
  • Icel. MacCulloch Eddic 61
  • Chinese Ferguson 50, Eberhard FFC CXX 115 No. 70. – Indonesian: Kruyt Archipel 465ff.
  • Maori Clark 32
  • Tahiti Henry 121, 128
  • Hawaii Beckwith Myth 45. – African: Frobenius Atlantis X 82, Werner African 123ff.
  • N. Am. Indian Alexander N. Am. 80, 82, 187, 284 n. 28
  • S. Am. Indian (Guarani) Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 93
  • Africa (Fang) Trilles 130, (Luba): Donohugh V 180.
  • general Durkheim 274, 409ff.
  • general Leroy La raison primitive 125ff.
  • general Holmberg Gudstron 61ff.
  • general C. Koch Der römische Juppiter. – Semitic: Smith Semites 3d ed. 529
Within the index

Filed under Deity.

1 finer motif beneath it
Supreme god as creator. (Cf. A0.)
Filed beside it
Characteristics of deity Father-god The making of gods Opposition of good and evil gods Gods of darkness and light. Darkness thought of as evil, light as good God of the living and the dead in the otherworld Deity: miscellaneous motifs

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