Origin of celibacy.
Mythological motifs. · Creation and ordering of human life. · Origin of customs. · Origin of customs of courtship and marriage. · view the constellation · filed as A1556.2
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
- Literary CrystallizationThe Vision; or, Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, Paradise 10
- ReferenceThe Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged), Chapter XXXVIIXXXVII. Oriental Religions in the West
- IndicThe Mahābhārata, Book 1, Section C
- IndicThe Mahābhārata, Book 12, Section CX
- IndicThe Mahābhārata, Book 12, Section CXCI
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.
- LithuanianBalys Legends No. 109.