μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Life bound up with burning brand (torch).

The dead. · The soul. · Life index. · view the constellation · filed as E765.1.2

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“Now the men who assembled to hunt the boar were these !:—Meleager, son of Oeneus; Dryas, son of Ares ; these came from Calydon; Idas and Lynceus, sons of Aphareus, from Messene; Castor and Pollux, sons of Zeus and Leda, from Lacedaemon; Theseus, son of Aegeus, from Athens ; Admetus, son of Pheres, from Pherae; Ancaeus and Cepheus, sons of Lycur- gus, from Arcadia; Jason, son of Aeson, from Ioleus ; Iphicles, son of Amphitryon, from…”

— The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK I, ch. VIII · served from our shelf uncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan

On our shelf — the index’s citations, resolved to served chapters
Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

Within the index

Filed under Life bound up with light (flame).

Filed beside it
Life bound up with candle. When the candle goes out, person diesLife-lights in lower world. Each light mystically connected with the life of a person. When light is extinguished, person dies
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Transformation: man to bird. (Cf. B644.)Transformation by touching with rod

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