River from urine of goddess (giantess) — Mythoi

Motif

River from urine of goddess (giantess).

Mythological motifs. · Topographical features of the earth. · Water features. · Origin of streams. · view the constellation · filed as A933

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth Cross
Icel. Herrmann Nordische Mythologie 368, Boberg
French Sébillot France II 327ff.
India Thompson-Balys
Korean Zong in-Sob 15 No. 7.
general Sudanese: Frobenius Atlantis VI 219

Within the index

Filed under Origin of streams.

2 finer motifs beneath it

River from the slaver of the Fenris-wolf River from vagina of first woman

Filed beside it

Creator of rivers Meander-pursuit. (Cf. A901.) – A fugitive's doublings cause a river's windings Various origins of rivers Origin of falls (cataracts) Why there is no mist on a certain river: fanned away with a pair of eagle's wings Rivers and streams offspring of marriage of Ocean and his sister

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Topographical features caused by experiences of primitive hero (demigod, deity). Footprints of the gods, thoroughfares of heroes, etc Lake from urine of horse. (Cf. A933.) Ocean from urine. (Cf. A933.) Spring from urine of horse. (Cf. A920.1.6., A933.)

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