Messenger of the gods.
Mythological motifs. · Gods. · The gods in general. · Mutual relations of the gods. · view the constellation · filed as A165.2
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
- ReferenceThe Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged), Chapter LIILII. Killing the Divine Animal
- Hermetic / AlchemicalThe Hermetic Museum, Restored and Enlarged, Tract 17: A Subtle Allegory Concerning the Secrets of Alchemy (Michael Maier)
- GreekHesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica, HESIOD’S WORKS AND DAYS
- GreekHesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica, XIX. TO PAN
- IndicThe Mahābhārata, Book 1, Section IX
Scholars’ trail — 6references
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.
- IrishBeal XXI 319, 336
- India*Thompson-Balys
- Jewish*Neuman
- general *Güntert Weltkönig 280
- general Gaster Thespis 139. – Greek: Fox 191 (Hermes, Iris), Grote I 43
- general Huichol: Alexander Lat. Am. 122. – Tahiti: Beckwith Myth 31, Henry 164.
Within the index
Filed under Attendants and servants of the gods.
5 finer motifs beneath it
Filed beside it