μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Rivers with marvelous underground connections. Euphrates, Tigris, Tiber, and River Boant really the same which flow through oceans and underground.

Marvels. · Extraordinary places and things. · Extraordinary bodies of water. · view the constellation · filed as F715.3

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

  • IrishTodd Lecture Series X 29 (Metrical Dindshenchas), *Cross.
Within the index

Filed under Extraordinary river. (Cf. D915.)

2 finer motifs beneath it
Undersea river. (Cf. F718.1.)Marvelous stream containing little black fish bursts forth from mountain. (Cf. A934.9.)
Filed beside it
Extraordinary source of riverRiver of extraordinary fluidStream runs through houseRiver which never freezesRiver that burns like fireRiver which petrifies anyone passing through itKingdom where seven rivers meetRed riverRiver whose specific gravity is so slight nothing can float on it. (Cf. F716.2.)

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