Mutilated god — Mythoi

Motif

Mutilated god.

Mythological motifs. · Gods. · The gods in general. · Nature and appearance of the gods. · view the constellation · filed as A128

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Mesopotamian The Epic of Gilgamish , Tablet III THE EXPEDITION TO THE FOREST OF CEDARS AGAINST HUMBABA.
Mesopotamian The Epic of Gilgamish , Tablet I OF. THE TYRANNY OF GILGAMISH, AND THE CREATION OF ENKIDU.
Greco-Roman The Library (Bibliotheca) , BOOK I, ch. V
Mesopotamian The Epic of Gilgamish , Tablet VI
Mesopotamian The Epic of Gilgamish , Tablet IX GILGAMISH IN TERROR OF DEATH SEEKS ETERNAL LIFE.

Filed across the traditions

Egyptian Müller 92ff.
Jewish Neuman
Greek Argonautica IV line 984 (Chronos)
India Thompson-Balys.

Within the index

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

5 finer motifs beneath it

Blind god. Hödhr One-eyed god. Odin Legless and armless deity supported on animal God with one hand. Hand cut or bitten off Lame god

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