μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Tabu: profaning sacred day.

Tabu. · Tabu connected with supernatural beings. · Tabu: offending the gods. · view the constellation · filed as C58

Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth Cross
  • Finnish-Swedish Wessman 18 Nos. 163, 166
  • Hebrew Exodus 20: 8–11, Neuman
  • India Thompson-Balys.
  • general Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 390. – Swiss: Jegerlehner Oberwallis 308 Nos. 37, 38
  • general 324 No. 147
  • general 328 No. 11
Within the index

Filed under Tabu: offending the gods.

1 finer motif beneath it
Tabu: diminishing number of sacred days
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: rivaling the gods Tabu: losing consecrated wafer Tabu: unseemly acts while carrying divine image Tabu: neglect of service to deity 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
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Great wind because of broken tabu. (Cf. C58.)

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