God with tail.
Mythological motifs. · Gods. · The gods in general. · Nature and appearance of the gods. · view the constellation · filed as A123.11
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
- Greco-RomanThe Metamorphoses of Ovid, Book 1
- Middle EasternThe Thousand and One Nights, commonly called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments, Chapter 9
- IndicThe Mahābhārata, Book 1, Section XVIII
- Japanese / ShintoNihongi: Chronicles of Japan, Book 1
- North American IndigenousZuni Folk Tales, Tale 18
Scholars’ trail — 3references
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.
- FijiBeckwith Myth 76
- TahitiBeckwith Myth 113.
- general Mangaia (Cook Is.): Clark 140