Origin of hoopoe's crest

Motif

Origin of hoopoe's crest.

Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Causes of animal characteristics: body. · Origin of animal characteristics: head. · view the constellation · filed as A2321.2

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In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Greco-RomanPausanias's Description of Greece, Book 10

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.

general Dh III 18.

Within the index

Filed under Origin of bird crests.

Filed beside it

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