μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 6references

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.

  • ChibchaAlexander Lat. Am. 204 (fox, bear)
  • Irish mythCross
  • IndiaThompson-Balys
  • Chinese*Krappe "Far Eastern Fox Lore" CFQ III (1944) 124ff.
  • JewishNeuman.
  • general *De Visser Die nicht menschengestaltigen Götter der Griechen (Leiden, 1903). – Egyptian: Müller 15ff.
Within the index

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

16 finer motifs beneath it
God in successive animal formsSnake-godMonkey as godEquine god (goddess)Stag-godBear-god (goddess)Bird deitySwine-godDog (wolf)-godBull-godTiger-godSeal-godEel-godFish-godRam-godGod as tortoise
Filed beside it
God as shape-shifterSize-changing godIncorporeal godFormless godsStars as deitiesGod half mortal, half immortal. Hair, skin, flesh, bones and marrow are mortal; mind, voice, breath, eye, and ear are immortal. (prajapati)Monstrous godsLuminous godDeity in human form. (The human form is assumed in most mythologies.)Mutilated godGods with animal featuresGiant god. (Cf. A128.2.)Dwarf godMan-eating god (goddess)Gods with unusual transportationPictorial representations of gods. (Cf. A131.)

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