μῦθοι Mythoi
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Filed under Superhuman tasks.

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Task: yoking together lion and wild boarTask: lifting a certain cat. (Is serpent that embraces the earth.)Task: defeating a certain old woman. (She is Old Age.)Task: collecting enormous amount of material (number of rare objects, etc.)Feat on spear point. Hero performs it as task set by otherworld amazonTask: breaking pigeon's egg on parapet of castle. Pigeon in ferocious serpentTask: drawing spear thrust through seven iron platesGirl to bring cloth as long as river and raise pig as big as mountain. (Countertask: measure river and weigh mountain.)Task: lifting mountain. Countertask: placing it on my shouldersTask: jumping across river in one bound
Filed beside it
Task: building enormous bridge. (Cf. H359.1.)Task: recovering lost objectsTask: building castle (fort)Task: annihilating (overcoming) army single-handedTask: bringing winds from the whole worldTask: binding waves of the seaTask: supplying water in land where it is lackingTask: eating enormous amountTask: drinking enormous amountTask: dipping out the sea with a spoon: countertask: stop all the rivers. (Cf. H1113., H1142.3.)Task: measuring oceanTasks: other difficult measurementsTask: carrying mountain on headTask: making ladder which whole army cannot set up

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