Bird language learned by having ears magically cleansed — Mythoi

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Bird language learned by having ears magically cleansed.

Animals. · Animals with human traits. · Speaking animals. · view the constellation · filed as B217.5

Filed across the traditions

Greek Frazer Apollodorus I 363 n. 2 (Athena and Tiresius). → on our shelf: The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK III, ch. VI

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Filed under Animal language learned.

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Helpful horse Animals save person's life. (Cf. B540.) Tabu: revealing secrets of god Tabu: man looking at nude goddess Transformation: man to woman Man looks at copulating snakes: transformed to woman. (Cf. D12.) Sphinx propounds riddle on pain of death Riddle of the Sphinx: what is it that goes on four legs in the morning, on two at midday, and on three in the evening. (Man, who crawls as a child, walks in middle life, and walks with a stick in old age.) Zeus smites Capaneus while he is climbing a ladder Punishment for splitting head and eating man's brains Punishment: banishment (exile) Blinding as punishment

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