God as a tree trunk.
Mythological motifs. · Gods. · The gods in general. · Nature and appearance of the gods. · view the constellation · filed as A139.8.1
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
- ReferenceThe Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged), Chapter LXVIIILXVIII. The Golden Bough
- ReferenceThe Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged), Chapter XLXL. The Nature of Osiris
- Greco-RomanPausanias's Description of Greece, Book 2
- Greco-RomanThe Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK III, ch. VII
Scholars’ trail — 1reference
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.
- HawaiiBeckwith Myth 284.