μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

  • JewishNeuman
  • India*Thompson-Balys.
  • general *M. Bloomfield Proc. Am. Philosophical Soc. LVI 1ff.
Within the index

Filed under Reincarnation. Return from the dead in another form.

9 finer motifs beneath it
Reincarnation with change of sexReincarnation: god reborn as manReincarnation: man becomes godReincarnation: man becomes spiritReincarnation: prince becomes common manReincarnation: common man becomes princeMan reincarnated as child. (Cf. E607.2.)Horse-headed men reborn as money-lendersReincarnation as conjurer
Filed beside it
Origin of reincarnation: miscarried message of immortalityScience of reincarnation taughtReincarnation: former lives rememberedReincarnation in form determined at deathLimited number of souls in world necessitates reincarnationDefinite number of reincarnationsReasons for reincarnation. (Cf. E693.)Methods of reincarnation

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