Tabu: revealing secrets of god — Mythoi

Motif

Tabu: revealing secrets of god.

Tabu. · Tabu connected with supernatural beings. · Tabu: offending the gods. · view the constellation · filed as C51.4

Filed across the traditions

Greek Frazer Apollodorus I 363 n. 1, Grote I 145. Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 298 No. 6 (investigating secret source of magic wine cask). → on our shelf: The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK III, ch. VI

Within the index

Filed under Tabu: touching possessions of god.

3 finer motifs beneath it

Tabu: betraying privacy of god. Emperor visited by God conceals his wife so that she may hear. God ceases his visits Tabu: spying on secret help of angels Tabu: spying on secret help of fairies

Filed beside it

Tabu: profaning shrine Tabu: stealing from god or saint. (Cf. C51.1.2.) Tabu: revealing name 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

Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes

Bird language learned by having ears magically cleansed Helpful horse Animals save person's life. (Cf. B540.) Tabu: man looking at nude goddess 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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