Luminous god — Mythoi

Motif

Luminous god.

Mythological motifs. · Gods. · The gods in general. · Nature and appearance of the gods. · view the constellation · filed as A124

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In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

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.

Icel.MacCulloch Eddic 129 (Balder)
India*Thompson-Balys.

Within the index

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

6 finer motifs beneath it

God with luminous countenance God with blazing eye White god Goddess with body full of fire God's radiance upon Moses' face God in form of comet

Filed beside it

God as shape-shifter Size-changing god Incorporeal god Formless gods Stars as deities God half mortal, half immortal. Hair, skin, flesh, bones and marrow are mortal; mind, voice, breath, eye, and ear are immortal. (prajapati)Monstrous gods 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.)

Travels with

God represented as meteor. (Cf. A124.)

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