Tabu: building too high a tower. (Tower of Babel.) — Mythoi

Motif

Tabu: building too high a tower. (Tower of Babel.)

Tabu. · Miscellaneous tabus. · Tabu: overweening pride. · view the constellation · filed as C771.1

Filed across the traditions

Hebrew Genesis II 3ff.
Jewish *Neuman
India Thompson-Balys
Indo-Chinese Scott Indo-Chinese 266f. – Maya: Alexander Lat. Am. 132
Aztec ibid. 96. – African (Kaffir): Kidd 237 No. 6
general Frazer Testament I 362ff.
general Hartland Science 221. Esthonian: Loorits Grundzüge I 453 f.
general (Ashanti): Werner African Myth 124.

Within the index

Filed under Tabu: building too large a structure.

1 finer motif beneath it

Wicked man constructs tower neither too large nor too high. (Santa Barbara.)

Filed beside it

Tabu: piling up mountains to reach heaven

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Building falls because of breaking of tabu. (Cf. C771.1.)

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