Tabu: offending the gods

Motif

Tabu: offending the gods.

Tabu. · Tabu connected with supernatural beings. · Tabu: offending the gods. · view the constellation · filed as C50

Scholars’ trail — 2references

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
India*Thompson-Balys.

Within the index

17 finer motifs beneath it

Tabu: offending goddess of fortune Tabu: touching possessions of god Tabu: being in presence of god Tabu: refusing credit to god Tabu: rivaling the gods Tabu: losing consecrated wafer Tabu: unseemly acts while carrying divine image Tabu: neglect of service to deity Tabu: profaning sacred day Tabu: disbelief in religious teachings Tabu: idolatry Tabu: attacking deity (sacred person)Tabu: failing to heed message of god Tabu: changing ritual Tabu: murmuring against deity Tabu: neglect of sacred fires Tabu: neglecting to fulfill vow made to god

Carried in tale types

The Offended Deity · ATU 9391 recorded variant

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