Tabu: aspiring to too much power — Mythoi

Motif

Tabu: aspiring to too much power.

Tabu. · Miscellaneous tabus. · Tabu: overweening pride. · view the constellation · filed as C773

Filed across the traditions

Jamaica Beckwith MAFLS XVII 259 No. 54.

Within the index

Filed under Tabu: overweening pride.

1 finer motif beneath it

Tabu: making unreasonable requests. Given power of fulfilling all wishes, person oversteps moderation and is punished

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: building too large a structure Tabu: counting possessions

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