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Reincarnation: god reborn as man.

The dead. · Reincarnation. · Reincarnation. · view the constellation · filed as E605.2

Filed across the traditions
  • Icelandic Olrik Kilderne til Sakses Oldhistorie I (1892) 30ff., 60ff., Boberg
  • India *Thompson-Balys, Keith 168
  • Buddhist myth Malalasekera II 907, 1258
  • Hawaii Beckwith Myth 119
  • Marquesas Handy 109
  • general N. Am. Indian (Mandan): Curtis N. Am. Indian V 39ff.
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Filed under Reincarnation in another human form.

1 finer motif beneath it
Reincarnation: spirit reborn as man
Filed beside it
Reincarnation with change of sex Reincarnation: man becomes god Reincarnation: man becomes spirit Reincarnation: prince becomes common man Reincarnation: common man becomes prince Man reincarnated as child. (Cf. E607.2.) Horse-headed men reborn as money-lenders Reincarnation as conjurer

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