God with many faces — Mythoi

Motif

God with many faces.

Mythological motifs. · Gods. · The gods in general. · Nature and appearance of the gods. · view the constellation · filed as A123.2.1

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Ancient Egyptian The Egyptian Book of the Dead , Chapter LXXI
Reference The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged) , Chapter XL XL. The Nature of Osiris
Literary Crystallization Masnavi i Ma'navi: The Spiritual Couplets (abridged) , Book 1, Story 2
Literary Crystallization Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books , Book 11
Depth Commentary Totem and Taboo: Resemblances Between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics , Chapter III

Within the index

Filed under God unusual as to face.

5 finer motifs beneath it

God with two faces God with three faces God with four faces God with five faces God with six faces

Filed beside it

God's unusual mouth

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