μῦθοι Mythoi
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Scholars’ trail — 13references

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.

  • NorseBoberg
  • GreekGrote I 189
  • Irish mythCross, Beal XXI 327
  • BabylonianSpence 158
  • HinduKeith 34, 172
  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • ChineseCoyajee JPASB XXIV 189
  • JapaneseAnesaki 303
  • PersianCarnoy 287, 293, 300. American Indian: *Thompson Tales 272 n. 1
  • S. Am. Indian (Toba)Métraux MAFLS XXXX 4, 8, 62, 66f., 73, 77, (Tucuan): Nimuendajá BBAE CXLIII (3) 724, (Huamachuco): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 151, (Apapocuvá-Guarani): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 138.
  • general *Farrand-Frachtenberg JAFL XXVIII 216 (N. Pac. Coast, Chinook, Kathlamet, Shoshone, Maidu, Coos, Alsea, Molala, Kalapuya)
  • general and add (Maidu) Dixon PAES IV 59 No. 2, (Joshua) Farrand-Frachtenberg JAFL XXVIII 235 No. 18, (Navaho) Alexander N. Am. 165, (Arikara) ibid. 108
  • general Jicarilla Apache: Mooney AA old ser. XI (1898) 204
Within the index

Filed under Culture hero establishes law and order.

4 finer motifs beneath it
Culture hero spares certain evil spirits. Old Age, Cold, Poverty, and Hunger beg the culture hero not to destroy them because of their real usefulness to manCulture hero banishes snakesCulture hero exterminates race of tigersCulture hero conquers sea monster
Filed beside it
Culture hero completes work of creatorCulture hero tames winds in cavesCulture hero regulates riversCulture hero swallowed and recovered from animalDemigods fight as allies of mortalsCulture heroes clear plainsCulture hero builds rathsCulture hero teaches arts and craftsCulture hero establishes customsCulture hero establishes social systemCulture hero dispenses food and hospitality

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