μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Person dead during day, revived at night.

The dead. · Resuscitation. · Circumstances of resuscitation. · view the constellation · filed as E155.4

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Filed across the traditions
  • India *Thompson-Balys.
Within the index

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

1 finer motif beneath it
Woman alive by day, dead by night
Filed beside it
Slain warriors revive nightly. Continue fighting the next day Annual resuscitation of a god. (Cf. A192.1.) Nightly resuscitation of man with external soul. When enemy takes off necklace containing the soul he revives, but dies again when it is put on Slain pigs revive nightly King eaten every morning: revived daily

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