μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
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Filed across the traditions
  • Icelandic *Boberg
  • Breton Sébillot Incidents s. v. "visite", "enfer"
  • Swiss Jegerlehner Oberwallis 299 No. 17, 313 No. 79
  • Finnish Kalevala rune 16 → on our shelf: The Kalevala, Rune XVI
  • Greek Roscher Lexikon I 22 s. v. "Archilleus", Fox 105, 137, 145, Frazer Apollodorus I 234 nn. 1, 2, 332 n. 2 → on our shelf: The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK II, ch. VI
  • Jewish *Neuman
  • India *Thompson-Balys
  • New Guinea Ker 81
  • Mono-Alu Wheeler 33
  • Hawaii Beckwith Myth 464
  • Eskimo (Greenland) Rasmussen III 165, 180, (Bering Strait): Nelson RBAE XVIII 489
  • N. Am. Indian *Thompson Tales 337 n. 216
  • Africa (Angola) Chatelain 225 No. 40, 249 No. 50, (Ekoi): Talbot 7, 34, 46, 56, 63, 99, 233, 238, 280, (Yoruba): Ellis 244 No. 1, (Bantu): Einstein 194f.
  • general Andrejev FFC LXIX 71f., *231n.
  • general *MacCulloch Encyc. Rel. Ethics IV 648ff.
  • general Oertel Studien zur vgl. Literaturgeschichte VIII 123
  • general Aarne FFC XXIII 115ff., 129ff.
  • general BP III 465
  • general Köhler-Bolte I 133
  • general Zemmrich Internationales Archiv für Ethnographie IV 217
  • general Hull FL XVIII 121
  • general *Fb "helvede" I 589a, "gjedebuk" I 440b, "Cyprianus" I 166b. Irish: *Cross, Beal XXI 320, 324, O'Suilleabhain 53, 63
  • general Araucanian: Alexander Lat Am. 330f.
Within the index

Filed under Journey to lower world.

6 finer motifs beneath it
Orpheus. Journey to land of dead to bring back person from the dead 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
Filed beside it
Physical features of underworld. Note: physical features of underworld of dead (F81) are listed under A671–A679. Some features of the underworld also appear in F130ff Hell of women in south of otherworld Ishtar unveiled. Goddess going to lower world passes through seven gates, at each of which she is divested of a garment till she is entirely unclothed Journey to otherworld to secure bride
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Tabu: drinking Tabu: profanely calling up spirit (devil, etc.) Tabu: eating in other world Looking tabu Transformation: man to ape Transformation to escape from captivity Boat made by magic Magic formula (charm) Resuscitation by a god. (Cf. A454.) Land of the dead Reincarnation. Return from the dead in another form Orpheus. Journey to land of dead to bring back person from the dead

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