Why bee is sacred.
Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Animal characteristics – miscellaneous. · Other animal characteristics. · view the constellation · filed as A2541.1
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
- Depth CommentaryPrimitive Culture: Researches into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art, and Custom, Chapter III
- YorubaThe Yoruba-Speaking Peoples of the Slave Coast of West Africa, Chapter 15
- Literary CrystallizationParadise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books, Book 12
- Australian AboriginalAustralian Legendary Tales and More Australian Legendary Tales, 55Eerin, the Small Grey Owl
- FinnishThe Kalevala, Rune XV
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.
- general Dh I 215
- general Sébillot RTP III 158.