μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Ages of animals (birds, fish) compared with age of human beings.

Animals. · Miscellaneous animal motifs. · Miscellaneous animal motifs. · view the constellation · filed as B841.2

Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth Cross.
Within the index

Filed under Long-lived animals.

1 finer motif beneath it
Crow lives nine generations of men, deer 36, raven 108, phoenix 972, nymphs 9720
Filed beside it
Animals debate as to which is the elder Dog so old his head is skinless Stags live one thousand years

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