μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Filed across the traditions
  • England Child I 215ff., Wells 128 (Sir Orfeo)
  • Norse MacCulloch Eddic 130
  • Greek Frazer Apollodorus I 17 n. 7, von den Steinen Zs. f. Vksk. XXV 260 → on our shelf: The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK I, ch. III
  • Babylonian Spence 125ff. (Ishtar)
  • Siberian Holmberg Siberian 491
  • India Thompson-Balys, Keith 161 (Savitri)
  • Chinese Eberhard FFC CXX 198f., Graham
  • Japanese Anesaki 223
  • Indonesia De Vries's list No. 160
  • Maori Clark III
  • Eskimo (Greenland) Rink 269, 298, Rasmussen III 59, 167
  • N. Am. Indian *Thompson Tales 337 n. 215, Hatt Asiatic Influences 65ff., **Gayton The Orpheus Myth in North America (JAFL XLVIII 263–293), E. W. Voegelin JAFL LX 52–58, (California): Gayton and Newman 99
  • Surinam Alexander Lat. Am. 275
  • Africa Werner African *138ff., 196.
  • general **E. Maass Orpheus (München, 1895)
  • general Frazer Pausanias V 154
  • general Cosquin Études 188ff. Irish myth: *Cross
  • general Oceanic (New Zealand, Mangaia, Hawaii, Samoa, New Hebrides, Bankes Island, German New Guinea): Dixon 72–78
Within the index

Filed under Descent to lower world of dead (Hell, Hades).

2 finer motifs beneath it
Wife goes to land of dead to procure dead husband's heart Journey to land of dead to visit deceased
Filed beside it
Journey to hell to recover devil's contract Journey to hell to circumcize child Journey to hell to retrieve soul of mother Journey to lower world to get treasures Souls redeemed from hell in shape of sheep
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Siren. Bird with woman's head Tabu: profanely calling up spirit (devil, etc.) Tabu: rivaling the gods Tabu: eating in other world Tabu: drinking Looking tabu Transformation to escape lover Magic music Rocks moved by magic Reincarnation. Return from the dead in another form Flower from grave bears letters. These commemorate the buried person Descent to lower world of dead (Hell, Hades)

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