μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

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

Marvels. · Other world journeys. · The lower world. · Access to lower world. · view the constellation · filed as F92

Filed across the traditions
  • Icelandic Herrmann Saxo II 103, MacCulloch Eddic 320
  • Breton Sébillot Incidents s. v. "puits"
  • French Canadian Barbeau JAFL XXIX 25
  • Greek Fox 88, 143
  • Jewish *Neuman
  • India *Thompson-Balys
  • Korean Zong in-Sob 167
  • Marquesas Handy 110
  • Maori Clark 100
  • Eskimo (Labrador) Hawkes GSCan XV 153
  • Africa Werner African 175, 184, 195.
  • general *Type 301
  • general *BP II 300ff.
  • general Penzer VI 108f.
  • general *Siuts Jenseitsmotive 50
  • general *Roberts 140. Irish myth: Cross (F158), Beal XXI 311, 324, 329, O'Suilleabhain 33, 91
  • general Gaster Thespis 183f.
  • general S. Am. Indian (Tereno): Métraux BBAE CXLIII (1) 367
Within the index

Filed under Access to lower world.

7 finer motifs beneath it
Visit to lower world through hole made by lifting clumps of grass Person swallowed up by earth and taken to lower world Visit to lower world through opening rocks. Rocks open with a charm Entrance to lower world through mountain Entrance to lower world by making hole in ground Entrance to lower world through cave Hole to underworld kingdom of snakes
Filed beside it
Door (gate) entrance to lower world Water entrance to lower world Stair to lower world Path to lower world Rope to lower world Descent to lower world on animal
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Pit entrance to otherworld. (Cf. F92.)
Carried in tale types

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