μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
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.

  • GreekFox 143. Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 206 No. 155
  • JapaneseAnesaki 238.
Within the index

Filed under Nature of the lower world.

Filed beside it
Hell. Lower world of tormentStygian 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 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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