Tabu: profaning shrine

Motif

Tabu: profaning shrine.

Tabu. · Tabu connected with supernatural beings. · Tabu: offending the gods. · view the constellation · filed as C51.1

Scholars’ trail — 3references

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, Beal XXI 336
GreekGrote I 279
IndiaThompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Tabu: touching possessions of god.

15 finer motifs beneath it

Tabu: using altar for secular purposes Tabu: stealing from altar. (Cf. C51.2.)Tabu: breathing on sacred fire 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

Filed beside it

Tabu: stealing from god or saint. (Cf. C51.1.2.)Tabu: revealing name of god Tabu: revealing secrets of god Tabu: imitating god Tabu: falsely claiming the powers of a god Tabu: touching stone image of deity with unwashed hands Tabu: giving away idol Tabu: pointing boat toward island of the gods

Travels with

Saints bring about miraculous death because of desecration of sanctuaries. (Cf. C51.1, Q222, V220.)Shrines. (Cf. C51.1.)

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