μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Roc. A giant bird which carries off men in its claws.

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“A deliverer was sent to them in the person of Jonayafyin, the son of the old woman who lives in the West, and the second wife of the Sun. She divided her time between the Sun and the Water-fall, and by the latter bore a second son, named Ko- bachischini, who remained with his mother while his brother went forth to battle with the enemies of mankind. In four days Jonayafyin grew to manhood,™ then he asked his mother where the Elk lived.”

Tales of the North American Indians, Tale 43 · served from our shelf  receiptuncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan

Attested across traditions
Scholars’ trail — 5references

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.

  • Irish mythCross
  • GermanGrimm Nos. 51, 161
  • general Penzer I 103ff., II 219
  • general Chauvin VI 3 No. 181 n. 3
  • general Burton I 154 n., V 122f., VI 16n, 48ff., S III 186, S VII 249. – Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 45. – N. Am. Indian: Thompson Tales 318 n. 151.
Within the index

Filed under [First Edition: B31. Giant birds.]

3 finer motifs beneath it
The bird Ziz, Hebrew counterpart of rocRoc's eggRoc drops rock on ship. Rock is so large that it destroys ship
Filed beside it
The Bird Gam. Throws sand in a stream and makes a lake. Appears at turn of century. Also carries men. Leaps into the sea and sleepsGiant ravens. They sit on mountain; when they fly, avalanche comesGiant batSimorg: giant birdOther giant birds
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Thunderbird. A mythical giant bird usually thought of as a thunder-godSpeaking bearHelpful animal. See also entire section B300–599, especially B350Grateful animalsHelpful wild beasts – felidaeAnimal nurse. Animal nourishes abandoned childBat rescues man from height. Bat lets him down in a spider-web basketMagic footwearMagic arrowMagic ballMagic bone gives advice. (Cf. D1013.)Miraculous speed from magic object
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