Deity in human form. (The human form is assumed in most mythologies.)

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Deity in human form. (The human form is assumed in most mythologies.)

Mythological motifs. · Gods. · The gods in general. · Nature and appearance of the gods. · view the constellation · filed as A125

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In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

IndicThe Mahābhārata, Book 13, Section CLXVIII

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.

Irish mythCross
JewishNeuman
SamoaHenry 346.

Within the index

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

4 finer motifs beneath it

Goddess of war in shape of hag God with red beard God with gold teeth Beautiful goddess

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 Luminous god 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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