μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Resplendent beauty. Woman's face lights up the dark.

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Remarkable persons. · Other extraordinary human beings. · view the constellation · filed as F574.1

Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth *Cross
  • Jewish *Neuman
  • India *Thompson-Balys, *Penzer VI 1 n. 1, II 43 n. 2, VII 189 n. 2
  • Buddhist myth Malalasekera II 1339
  • Koryak *Jochelson JE VI 363
  • Philippine (Tinguian) Cole 35 n. 1, 62, 68, 106, 154.
  • general *Fb "prins og prinsesse"
Within the index

Filed under Luminous person.

4 finer motifs beneath it
Woman's beauty burns onlooker Woman's beauty shows through seven veils Men killed by look of beautiful princess Man's beauty eclipses splendor of sun
Filed beside it
Man with luminous arms Holy man (hero) emits light
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Remarkable beauty. (Cf. F574.1.)

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