Origin of tears and sighs

Motif

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

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Literary Crystallization The 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
Indic The Mahābhārata , Book 3, Section CCCXI

Filed across the traditions

Greek Grote I 7, 72
Jewish Neuman
India Thompson-Balys.
general Wienert FFC LVI 37
general Halm Aesop Nos. 138, 355

Within the index

Filed under Beginnings of trouble for man.

1 finer motif beneath it

The "three first cries that made their way to God": the cry of the blood of Abel, etc

Filed beside it

Paradise lost. Original happy state forfeited because of one sin Confusion of tongues. Originally all men speak same language. Because of a sin they come to speak different languages Origin of death Origin of murder Origin of disease Origin of physical defects. Wicked people entering heaven on rope fall to earth and are injured. St. Peter misunderstands what God says and lets them fall Origin of blindness Origin of war among men Origin of quarrelling Origin of lying Origin of hunger Man to earn bread by sweat of his brow. (Cf. A1331.1.) Mankind's escape from trouble

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