Tabu: building too large a structure — Mythoi

Motif

Tabu: building too large a structure.

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

Within the index

Filed under Tabu: overweening pride.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Tabu: building too high a tower. (Tower of Babel.) Tabu: piling up mountains to reach heaven

Filed beside it

Overweening pride in good fortune forbidden. Man proud that he and his clan have never known unhappiness or want swallowed up by earth Tabu: aspiring to too much power Tabu: counting possessions

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