μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 4references

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.

  • IndiaThompson-Balys.
  • general *Cox 496 n. 32
  • general Fb "hugormekonge" IV 225a
  • general *Scott Thumb 173. Irish myth: Cross. – Armenian: Ananikian 74
Within the index

Filed under Wisdom-giving animals.

4 finer motifs beneath it
Power of soothsaying from serpents' licking ears. (Cf. B165.1.1., B176.) Frazer Apollodorus II 48 n. 2Fortune learned from serpentWisdom from eating serpent. (Cf. B176.)Power of seeing whether the dead go to heaven or hell is gained from serpent
Filed beside it
Wisdom from fish. (Cf. B175.)Wisdom from other animalAnimal languages learned from animal
Travels with
Wise serpent. (Cf. B161–165, B176.)Magic serpent. (Cf. B108, B112, B123, B161–165.)

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