Parent of all fishes.
Animals. · Mythical animals. · Mythical fish. · view the constellation · filed as B60.1
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
- Indian / Hindu (Sanskrit epic)The Ramayan of Valmiki (Griffith verse translation), Book 2, Canto 114
- ReferenceThe Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged), Chapter LIIILIII. The Propitiation of Wild Animals By Hunters
- YorubaThe Yoruba-Speaking Peoples of the Slave Coast of West Africa, Chapter 12
- Japanese / ShintoKojiki: Records of Ancient Matters, Section 32
- Greco-RomanThe Metamorphoses of Ovid, Book 2
Scholars’ trail — 1reference
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.
- HawaiiBeckwith Myth 24.