Why birds are everywhere.
Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Causes of animal characteristics: appearance and habits. · Animal characteristics: dwelling and food. · view the constellation · filed as A2434.1.1
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
- IndicThe Mahābhārata, Book 1, Section XXIV
- Hermetic / AlchemicalThrice-Greatest Hermes, Volume I: Prolegomena, Chapter IX: Plutarch: Concerning the Mysteries of Isis and Osiris
- IndicThe Mahābhārata, Book 1, Section XXIII
- IndicThe Mahābhārata, Book 8, Section 41
- YorubaThe Yoruba-Speaking Peoples of the Slave Coast of West Africa, Chapter 14
Scholars’ trail — 2references
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.
- IndiaThompson-Balys
- TahltanTeit JAFL XXXII 209.