μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Three worlds of dead.

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Ghosts and revenants – miscellaneous. · Abode of the dead. · view the constellation · filed as E480.2

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Filed across the traditions
  • Hawaii Beckwith Myth 155, 160.
Within the index

Filed under Abode of the dead.

Filed beside it
Abode of animal souls. (Cf. E730.1.) Men must enter spirit world armed Land of the dead Land of shades. Everything is done by unseen people Land of skulls Glowing beds of dead. Youth in land of dead puts staff into one of the beds. The iron glows and the wood burns Abode of the dead – miscellaneous

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