Return from lower world — Mythoi

Motif

Return from lower world.

Marvels. · Other world journeys. · The lower world. · Visit to lower world – miscellaneous motifs. · view the constellation · filed as F101

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Reference The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged) , Chapter XLIII XLIII. Dionysus
Reference The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged) , Chapter XLIX XLIX. Ancient Deities of Vegetation as Animals
North American Indigenous Navaho Legends , Legend 1
Japanese / Shinto Nihongi: Chronicles of Japan , Book 29

Filed across the traditions

Indonesia De Vries's list Nos 162, 164.

Within the index

Filed under Visit to lower world – miscellaneous motifs.

8 finer motifs beneath it

Return from lower world up steep slope Return from lower world by being slung by bent tree Return from lower world on eagle Escape from lower world by magic Escape from lower world on miraculously growing tree Ascent from lower world on animal. (Cf. F98.) Escape from lower world by spider's thread Man returning from hell brings heat with him

Filed beside it

Accidental arrival in lower world Dead oppose return of living from land of the dead. (Cf. F93.1.1.) Youths grind in mill of underworldlings Youths tutored by Vulcan, smith of Hell Nature of underworld inhabitants Visit to lower world – additional motifs

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