μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Transformation: instruments of torture to lotus flowers.

Magic. · Transformation. · Other forms of transformation. · Transformation: object to object. · Transformation: object to another object. · view the constellation · filed as D454.16

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“The Nunnery on Fire Seeing all these gods arrive to help the novice, the Superior, I Yu, held consultation with the choir-mistress, saying: "We assigned to the Princess the burdensome work of the kitchen because she refused to return to the world; but since she has entered on her duties the gods of the eight caves of Heaven have come to offer her fruit, Ch'ieh Lan sweeps the kitchen, the dragon has dug a well, the God of the Hearth and…”

— Myths & Legends of China, Chapter X · served from our shelf

On our shelf — the index’s citations, resolved to served chapters
Scholars’ trail — 1reference

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

Within the index

Filed under Transformation of manufactured object.

Filed beside it
Transformation: box to another objectTransformation: bread to another object. (Cf. D471)Transformation: clothing to other objectTransformation: needle to other objectTransformation: milk sack to other objectTransformation: pot to other objectTransformation: brush to mountainTransformation: ornament to other objectTransformation: weapon to other objectTransformation: ship to other objectTransformation: writing tablets to bundleTransformation: mirror to glass mountainTransformation: pieces of chalk into tins of oilTransformation: ink to beams of lightTransformation: statue to drinking vessels
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Blind god. HödhrGoddess of mercyAnimal as servant to manAnimal as domestic servantHelpful tigerTransformation: man to tigerMagic object acquired as reward for religious austeritiesMagic peachMagic hairpinMagic waters and medicinesMagic salve (ointment)Magic peach gives immunity from age. (Cf. D981.2.)

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