Task: sowing dragon's teeth

Motif

Task: sowing dragon's teeth.

Tests. · Tests of prowess: tasks. · Nature of tasks. · Impossible or absurd tasks. · Tasks contrary to laws of nature. · view the constellation · filed as H1024.5

Filed across the traditions

Greek Frazer Apollodorus I 109 n. 4. → on our shelf: The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK I, ch. IX

Within the index

Filed under Tasks contrary to the nature of animals.

Filed beside it

Task: milking a bull Task: placing frogs in a tree Task: chasing a hare into every trap in a high tree Task: teaching an ass to read Task: procuring bird out of season Task: teaching animal to speak Task: spinning wool still on goat's back

Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes

Sleepless dragon Brazen-footed, fire-breathing bulls. (Cf. B15.6, B15.5) Animal languages learned from serpent (not eaten). (Cf. B176.) Bird language Grateful animals Helpful serpent Tabu: falsely claiming the powers of a god Transformation and disenchantment at will Power of self-transformation received from a god Magic ship. (Cf. D1121.) Magic drug renders invulnerable. (Cf. D1240.) Symplegades. Rocks that clash together at intervals. (Cf. D931.)

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