Tabu: man looking at nude goddess — Mythoi

Motif

Tabu: man looking at nude goddess.

Tabu. · Looking tabu. · Tabu: looking at certain person or thing. · view the constellation · filed as C312.1.1

Filed across the traditions

Greek *Frazer Apollodorus I 363 n. 1 (Tiresias), Fox 46, 185 (Acteon), Grote I 238 → on our shelf: The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK III, ch. VI
Jewish Neuman
India Thompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Tabu: man looking at nude woman.

Filed beside it

Tabu: looking at nude woman riding through town. (Godiva.)

Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes

Bird language learned by having ears magically cleansed Helpful horse Animals save person's life. (Cf. B540.) Tabu: revealing secrets of god 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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