μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

  • BabylonianGilgamesch-Epos IX
  • ChineseGraham.
  • general Patch PMLA XXXIII 614 n. 48. Irish myth: Cross
Within the index

Filed under Pit entrance to lower world. Entrance through pit, hole, spring, or cavern.

Filed beside it
Visit to lower world through hole made by lifting clumps of grassPerson swallowed up by earth and taken to lower worldVisit to lower world through opening rocks. Rocks open with a charmEntrance to lower world by making hole in groundEntrance to lower world through caveHole to underworld kingdom of snakes

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