μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Eating totem animal (or animal namesake).

Tabu. · Eating and drinking tabu. · Eating tabus. · Tabu: eating certain things. · view the constellation · filed as C221.2

Filed across the traditions
  • India Thompson-Balys. – Hupa: Goddard UCal I 154
  • Eskimo (Mackenzie Area) Jenness 52
  • African *Werner African 276ff.
  • general Frazer Golden Bough VIII 25ff. Irish myth: Cross, MacCulloch Celtic 156
  • general Iroquois. Smith RBAE II 85
  • general Tshi: Ellis Tshi-Speaking Peoples 211. – Australian: Parker 40ff.
  • general Bougainville: Wheeler 58.
Within the index

Filed under Tabu: eating meat.

1 finer motif beneath it
Tabu: eating animal helper
Filed beside it
Tabu: eating flesh of certain animal Tabu: eating certain parts of animals Tabu: eating animal taken under certain circumstances Tabu: eating live animals or live parts of them

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