μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Task: carrying mountain on head.

Tests. · Tests of prowess: tasks. · Nature of tasks. · Superhuman tasks. · view the constellation · filed as H1146

Filed across the traditions
  • India Thompson-Balys.
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Filed under Superhuman tasks.

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: supplying water in land where it is lacking 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: making ladder which whole army cannot set up Miscellaneous superhuman tasks
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Countertasks. When a task is assigned, the hero agrees to perform it as soon as the assigner performs a certain other task. (Cf. H691.2.1, H1021.1.1, H1021.3, H1021.6.1, H1021.6.2, H1022.2.1, H1022.3, H1022.9, H1023.1.1, H1023.1.2, H1023.2.2.1, H1023.9.1, H1023.10.1, H1142.3, H1146.)

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