μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 12references

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.

  • IcelandicHartland Science 193
  • Jewish*Neuman
  • ArabianBurton Nights II 197n.
  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • Buddhist mythMalalasekera I 606, II 294
  • ChineseEberhard FFC CXX 183
  • KoreanZong in-Sob 171
  • MelanesiaWheeler 21f., Codrington II 1, Ker 7
  • N. Am. Indian (Thompson River)Teit MAFLS XI 53 No. 34
  • S. Am. Indian (Chiriguano)Métraux RMLP XXXIII 177.
  • general Types 800–809
  • general K. Kahler Heaven and Hell in Comparative Religion (New York, 1923). – Irish myth: *Cross
Within the index

Filed under Journey to upper world. Most references for F0 discuss this motif.

3 finer motifs beneath it
Journey to heaven in tranceMan goes to heaven without dying. (Cf. D1856, F2.)Man goes to heaven for limited time
Filed beside it
Return from upper worldMan taken to upper world sees all that happens on earthJourney to see deity. Usually to the upper worldMan admitted into heaven but must not find faultVisit to star-worldVisit to land of moonVisit to land of the sun

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