Dwarf god — Mythoi

Motif

Dwarf god.

Mythological motifs. · Gods. · The gods in general. · Nature and appearance of the gods. · view the constellation · filed as A134

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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.

JapaneseAnesaki 229
HinduPenzer I 144 n. 2.

Within the index

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

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.)Mutilated god Gods with animal features God in animal form Giant god. (Cf. A128.2.)Man-eating god (goddess)Gods with unusual transportation Pictorial representations of gods. (Cf. A131.)

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