μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Shooting star signifies a birth. Stars are the dead. When they fall they are being reborn. At death they are replaced in the sky.

The dead. · The soul. · Other forms of the soul. · view the constellation · filed as E741.1.2

Filed across the traditions
  • Siberian Holmberg Siberian 395
  • general *Hdwb. d. Abergl. IX N. 770f.
  • general N. Am. Indian (Mandan): Alexander N. Am. 96.
Within the index

Filed under Soul in form of star. (Cf. V515.1.2.)

Filed beside it
Shooting star signifies that someone is dying. One star for each person. At his death it falls

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