μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 14references

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.

  • GreekFox 143
  • EgyptianMüller 179
  • BabylonianSpence 128
  • PersianCarnoy 345
  • HinduPenzer X 169 s. v. "Hades", Keith 100, 160
  • IndiaThompson-Balys. – Japanese: Anesaki 237. – Aztec: Alexander Lat. Am. 80
  • Mayaibid. 138
  • Chibchaibid. 198
  • EskimoAlexander N. Am. 7.
  • general Jeremias Hölle und Paradies bei den Babyloniern (Leipzig 1903)
  • general Kohler Heaven and Hell in Comparative Religion (New York 1923)
  • general *Landau Hölle und Fegfeuer in Volksglaube, Dichtung, und Kirchenlehre (Heidelberg, 1909)
  • general *Jataka Index s.v. "hell". – Norse: De la Saussaye 256, 291, MacCulloch Eddic 303, Herrmann Saxo Gr. II 588, *Boberg
  • general Chaco: ibid. 324
Within the index

Filed under Nature of the lower world.

11 finer motifs beneath it
Hell located to the northCreation of hellEntrance to cave as gate to hellHell confused with fairy landSize and arrangements of hellDoorkeeper of hellHorrible sights in hellFrigidity of hellWell in hell (Hvergelmir)Gate around hellBeings born in hell have long bodies and cling with long nails to walls
Filed beside it
Stygian river. River in lower world. In Greek myth five such rivers in Hades, Styx (hate), Acheron (mourning), Kokytus (lamentation), Lethe (forgetfulness) and Pyrephlegethon (flame)Hound of hell. Cerberus (monstrous dog) guards the bridge to the lower worldJudges in the lower worldShip of hellWorkmen and tradesmen of hellIn other world one room contains the dead, another contains souls of the unborn waiting to enter the wombs of women, and a third contains all the evil spiritsSun in the underworldHole to lower world up which people comeNature of the lower world – miscellaneous

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