μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

  • GreekFox 156 (Zeus), 218 (Dionysus), 230 (Persephone)
  • BabylonianSpence 132 (Adonis, Tammuz).
Within the index

Filed under Periodic resuscitation. (Cf. D620.) Return to life at regular intervals.

Filed beside it
Slain warriors revive nightly. Continue fighting the next dayNightly resuscitation of man with external soul. When enemy takes off necklace containing the soul he revives, but dies again when it is put onPerson dead during day, revived at nightSlain pigs revive nightlyKing eaten every morning: revived daily
Travels with
Death of the gods

wander