Golden age. A former age of perfection — Mythoi

Motif

Golden age. A former age of perfection.

Mythological motifs. · Establishment of natural order. · Establishment of natural order. · view the constellation · filed as A1101.1

Filed across the traditions

Icel. De la Saussaye 165, MacCulloch Eddic 327, 378 n. 49, Boberg
Lappish Qvigstad FFC LX 35 No. 8
Greek Fox 105, Grote I 62
Jewish Neuman
Persian Carnoy 300, 305
Hindu Keith 103
India Thompson-Balys. – Tuamotu: Stimson MS (z-G 13/50)
Aztec Alexander Lat. Am. 66
Carib ibid 262
general Hdwb. d. Abergl. III 927ff. – Irish myth: Cross
general Ackawoi: ibid. 269.

Within the index

Filed under The four ages of the world. A development of the present order through four stages or periods, the golden, silver, bronze, and iron ages, or the like.

3 finer motifs beneath it

Reign of peace and justice (under certain king) Even trees could speak in golden age Former age: spirits and ogres lived with men, and gods appeared in human guise

Filed beside it

Reversal of nature in former age

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Golden Age ends as result of broken tabu. (Cf. A1101.1.)

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