Tabu: rivaling the gods — Mythoi

Motif

Tabu: rivaling the gods.

Tabu. · Tabu connected with supernatural beings. · Tabu: offending the gods. · view the constellation · filed as C54

Filed across the traditions

Greek *Frazer Apollodorus I 20 n. 1 (Thamyris), I 31 (Side), Fox 220 (Marsyas), Grote I 103f., 146, 238, Gaster Thespis 261f., 289 → on our shelf: The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK I, ch. III
India Thompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Tabu: offending the gods.

Filed beside it

Tabu: offending goddess of fortune Tabu: touching possessions of god Tabu: being in presence of god Tabu: refusing credit to god 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

Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes

Siren. Bird with woman's head Transformation to escape lover Magic music Rocks moved by magic Flower from grave bears letters. These commemorate the buried person Orpheus. Journey to land of dead to bring back person from the dead Miraculous conception

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