God half mortal, half immortal. Hair, skin, flesh, bones and marrow are mortal; mind, voice, breath, eye, and ear are immortal. (prajapati)

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God half mortal, half immortal. Hair, skin, flesh, bones and marrow are mortal; mind, voice, breath, eye, and ear are immortal. (prajapati).

Mythological motifs. · Gods. · The gods in general. · Nature and appearance of the gods. · view the constellation · filed as A122

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In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Greco-RomanPausanias's Description of Greece, Book 10

Scholars’ trail — 2references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

HinduKeith 76
general cf. Greek: Grote I 3.

Within the index

Filed under Nature and appearance of the gods. (Cf. A18f.)

Filed beside it

God as shape-shifter Size-changing god Incorporeal god Formless gods Stars as deities Monstrous gods Luminous god Deity in human form. (The human form is assumed in most mythologies.)Mutilated god Gods with animal features God in animal form Giant god. (Cf. A128.2.)Dwarf god Man-eating god (goddess)Gods with unusual transportation Pictorial representations of gods. (Cf. A131.)

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