Remarkable lips — Mythoi

Motif

Remarkable lips.

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Remarkable persons. · Remarkable physical organs. · view the constellation · filed as F544.1

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Indic The Mahābhārata , Book 13, Section XXXVI
Literary Crystallization Moby-Dick; or, The Whale , 96
Depth Commentary Primitive Culture: Researches into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art, and Custom , Chapter V

Within the index

Filed under Remarkable mouth. (Cf. F513, F531.1.4, F531.1.6.2.)

4 finer motifs beneath it

Upper lip curls over nostril; lower hangs down to neck When sad, man lets one lip fall to stomach; other makes hood over his head Lips on side of face Lips used as a spear

Filed beside it

Remarkably large mouth Man's mouth, from fear of sea-monster under lake, "distended to both his ears." Mouth of man emits flames when open for speech Mouth open to drink for forty days Remarkable tongue Remarkable teeth

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