μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

  • general Type 830. Africa (Ekoi): Talbot 177.
Within the index

Filed under Tabu: offending the gods.

2 finer motifs beneath it
People taught by God to work: claim they learned by own effortsTabu: arrogance toward deity
Filed beside it
Tabu: offending goddess of fortuneTabu: touching possessions of godTabu: being in presence of godTabu: rivaling the godsTabu: losing consecrated waferTabu: unseemly acts while carrying divine imageTabu: neglect of service to deityTabu: profaning sacred dayTabu: disbelief in religious teachingsTabu: idolatryTabu: attacking deity (sacred person)Tabu: failing to heed message of godTabu: changing ritualTabu: murmuring against deityTabu: neglect of sacred firesTabu: neglecting to fulfill vow made to god

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