μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Paradise lost because of forbidden fruit (drink). (Cf. A1346).

Mythological motifs. · Creation and ordering of human life. · Ordering of human life. · Beginnings of trouble for man. · view the constellation · filed as A1331.1

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth Cross
  • Spanish Exempla Keller
  • Lithuanian Balys Legends No. 34. – Persian: Carnoy 297
  • India Thompson-Balys
  • Quiché Alexander Lat. Am. 171
  • general *Dh I 208ff.
  • general *Frazer Old Testament I 45ff.
  • general Burmese, Indo-Chinese: Scott 265, 289. – Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 45
  • general Yuracare: ibid. 315
  • general Biloxi: Dorsey and Swanton BBAE XLVII 32
  • general African (Baluba): Einstein 199.
Within the index

Filed under Paradise lost. Original happy state forfeited because of one sin.

1 finer motif beneath it
Paradise lost because of forbidden food
Filed beside it
Paradise lost because of brother-sister incest
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Man to earn bread by sweat of his brow. (Cf. A1331.1.)

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