Task: supplying water in land where it is lacking — Mythoi

Motif

Task: supplying water in land where it is lacking.

Tests. · Tests of prowess: tasks. · Nature of tasks. · Superhuman tasks. · view the constellation · filed as H1138

Cited in the index

general *Fb "vand" III 1001b. Icelandic: Boberg.

Within the index

Filed under Superhuman tasks.

1 finer motif beneath it

Task: "to turn low stream and fill the high stream."

Filed beside it

Task: building enormous bridge. (Cf. H359.1.) Task: recovering lost objects Task: building castle (fort) Task: annihilating (overcoming) army single-handed Task: bringing winds from the whole world Task: binding waves of the sea Task: eating enormous amount Task: drinking enormous amount Task: dipping out the sea with a spoon: countertask: stop all the rivers. (Cf. H1113., H1142.3.) Task: measuring ocean Tasks: other difficult measurements Task: carrying mountain on head Task: making ladder which whole army cannot set up Miscellaneous superhuman tasks

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