μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Door (gate) entrance to lower world.

Marvels. · Other world journeys. · The lower world. · Access to lower world. · view the constellation · filed as F91

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“One day the boy said, “Father, make me two bows and the arrows for them.”’ His father asked him why he wanted two bows. The boy said, “I want them to change about.” His father made them for him, but surmised the boy had other reasons, and concluded he would watch the boy, and on one day, earlier than usual, he left his tipi and hid upon a hill overlooking his tipi, and while there, he saw two boys of about the same age shooting arrows.”

Tales of the North American Indians, Tale 44 · served from our shelf  receiptuncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan

Attested across traditions
Scholars’ trail — 5references

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.

  • IrishO'Suilleabhain 33, 58, Beal XXI 311, 323
  • Jewish*Neuman
  • New ZealandDixon 73
  • AfricaWerner African 184.
  • general Gaster Oldest Stories 152
Within the index

Filed under Access to lower world.

1 finer motif beneath it
Slamming door on exit from mountain otherworld. It (almost) injures the hero because he has failed to bring back the talisman which opened the mountain
Filed beside it
Pit entrance to lower world. Entrance through pit, hole, spring, or cavernWater entrance to lower worldStair to lower worldPath to lower worldRope to lower worldDescent to lower world on animal
Travels with
Door to otherworld. (Cf. F91.)
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Resuscitation my frightening dead. Frequently combined with E61Resuscitation by musicResuscitation by breathing on corpseDeath thought sleep. Resuscitated person thinks he has been sleeping. He exclaims, "How long I have been asleep!"Swallowed person becomes baldCliff-ogre. Kicks victims over cliffRectum snakes. Snakes which creep into living man and devour himPot-tilter. Ogre who tilts a pot so that victims are drawn into itSucking monster. Giant (sometimes a giant hall or cave) sucks in victimsMan with fire moccasins. They set fire to surroundingsKilling trees threaten heroPlace and conditions of childbirth

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