Other impossible tasks — Mythoi

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Other impossible tasks.

Tests. · Tests of prowess: tasks. · Nature of tasks. · Impossible or absurd tasks. · Other impossible tasks. · view the constellation · filed as H1030

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Task: showing picture of a voice Task: eating the moon Task: building castle suspended between heaven and earth Task: getting fruit from top of tall tree without cutting tree. (Cuts roots of tree.)Task: bringing a plantain leaf from the garden without tearing it Task: recalling a dream someone else has had Task: filling a sack full of lies (truths)Task: carrying woman across river without wetting feet. Hero fails Task: bringing melon 12 cubits long with seed 13 cubits long Other impossible tasks – miscellaneous