μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
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.

  • 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 dayAnnual 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 onSlain pigs revive nightlyKing eaten every morning: revived daily

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