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Motif

Transformation: man to ape.

Magic. · Transformation. · Transformation: man to animal. · Transformation: man to mammal. · Transformation: man to wild beast (mammal). · view the constellation · filed as D118.1

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“In return Daedalus made a portrait statue of Hercules at Pisa, which Hercules mistook at night for living and threw a stone and hit it. And during the time of his servitude with Omphale it is said that the voyage to Colchis? and the hunt of the Calydonian deceitful men whom Zeus punished by turning them into apes, and that the islands of Ischia and Procida, off the Bay of Naples, were called Pithecusae (‘‘ Ape Islands ”) after them.”

The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK II, ch. VI · served from our shelf uncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan

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Filed under Transformation: man to simian.

Filed beside it
Transformation: man (woman) to monkey
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Resuscitation by a god. (Cf. A454.)Descent to lower world of dead (Hell, Hades)Strong man throws another from wallsSuitors contest with bride's father in shooting

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