Origin of tears and sighs.
Mythological motifs. · Creation and ordering of human life. · Ordering of human life. · Beginnings of trouble for man. · view the constellation · filed as A1344
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
- Literary CrystallizationThe Vision; or, Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, Purgatory 30
- Indian / Hindu (Sanskrit epic)The Ramayan of Valmiki (Griffith verse translation), Book 3, Canto 19
- Indian / Hindu (Sanskrit epic)The Ramayan of Valmiki (Griffith verse translation), Book 4, Canto 6
- Indian / Hindu (Sanskrit epic)The Ramayan of Valmiki (Griffith verse translation), Book 6, Canto 101
- IndicThe Mahābhārata, Book 3, Section CCCXI
Scholars’ trail — 5references
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.
- GreekGrote I 7, 72
- JewishNeuman
- IndiaThompson-Balys.
- general Wienert FFC LVI 37
- general Halm Aesop Nos. 138, 355