μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
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.

  • BabylonianGilgamesch Epos VI (Ishtar). – Irish myth: Cross
  • NorseHerrmann Saxo Gr. II 238ff., *Boberg
  • GreekFox 29, 157, 199, 211. – Tahiti: Henry 231, Beckwith Myth 37, Porapora (Society Is.): *Beckwith Myth 38
  • MaoriClark 148
  • S. Am. Indian (Chiriguano)Métraux RMLP XXXIII 154, 165.
Within the index

Filed under Gods in relation to mortals.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Philandering godGods as ancestors of mankind
Filed beside it
God serves as menial on earthGod reveals himself to mortalsDeity invokedGod as founder and protector of certain peoplesDeity cares for favorite individualsGods and men judge each otherGods in relation to mortals – miscellaneous
Travels with
God enamored of mortal. (Cf. A188.)

wander