μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Soul wanders from body in sleep. Dreams explained as experiences of the soul on these wanderings.

The dead. · The soul. · Soul leaves or enters the body. · view the constellation · filed as E721.1

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“Chinese Polytheism That the names of the gods of China are legion will be readily conceded when it is said that, besides those already described, those still to be mentioned, and many others to whom space will not permit us to refer, there are also gods, goddesses, patrons, etc., of wind, rain, snow, frost, rivers, tides, caves, trees, flowers, theatres, horses, oxen, cows, sheep, goats, dogs, pigs, scorpions, locusts, gold, tea, salt,…”

Myths & Legends of China, Chapter IV · served from our shelf

On our shelf — the index’s citations, resolved to served chapters
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 19references

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.

  • IcelandicBoberg
  • IrishPlummer clxxii, *Cross
  • Spanish ExemplaKeller
  • LithuanianBalys Index No. 3520
  • Jewish*Neuman
  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • ChineseWerner 93 → on our shelf: Myths & Legends of China, Chapter IV
  • SiberianHolmberg Siberian 473f.
  • HawaiiBeckwith Myth 144, 173f.
  • Cook IslandsClark 81
  • MarquesasHandy 81
  • Easter IslandMétraux Ethnology 56, 363
  • Eskimo (Greenland)Holm 62
  • Africa (Fang)Trilles 133.
  • general *Frazer Golden Bough III 36ff.
  • general Fb "sjæl" III 213a
  • general Tobler 22, 37, 67
  • general Herbert III 209
  • general Oesterley Gesta Romanorum No. 172. English: Guy of Warwick (EETS extra ser. XXV) lines 9358ff.
Within the index

Filed under Soul journeys from the body.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Sleeper not to be awakened, since soul is absentSoul of sleeper prevented from returning to his body
Filed beside it
Mark inflicted on wandering soul seen on body after soul's returnBody in trance while soul is absentWandering soul cause of sicknessWandering soul detained by ghostsWandering soul assumes various shapesOn return to body soul crosses on scythe-blade as bridgeSoul leaves body to visit hell (heaven). (Cf. V511.1, V511.2.)Soul leaves body to converse with deadSoul of embryo wandersSoul takes voyage
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
God with many eyesBanquets of the godsFight of the gods and giantsDeath of the godsResurrection of godsStar-godGoddess of north starRank of the gods in HadesDoor-godsKitchen-godsGod of happinessGod of wealth

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