Tabu: breathing on sacred fire — Mythoi

Motif

Tabu: breathing on sacred fire.

Tabu. · Tabu connected with supernatural beings. · Tabu: offending the gods. · view the constellation · filed as C51.1.3

Cited in the index

general British: *MacCulloch Celtic 11 (references given to parallels from Parsis, Brahmans, Japanese, and Germans). Irish myth: Cross.

Within the index

Filed under Tabu: profaning shrine.

Filed beside it

Tabu: using altar for secular purposes Tabu: stealing from altar. (Cf. C51.2.) Tabu: misuse of money in alms box Tabu: dancing in churchyard Tabu: discontinuing use of a church Tabu: peeping at sacred font. (Cf. C300.) Tabu: allowing a drop to fall upon altar Tabu: unworthy men to enter or see sanctuary. (Cf. C300.) Tabu: to enter sacred places closed to the female sex. (Cf. C51.1.2.) Visits of goddess cease when her sacred spring is disturbed Tabu: striking tree which belongs to deity Tabu: treating scornfully statue and dress of goddess Tabu: leaving corpse at shrine Tabu: wearing shoes at shrine

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