Child seeks unknown mother.
Tests. · Tests of prowess: quests. · Nature of quests. · Miscellaneous quests. · view the constellation · filed as H1381.2.2.2
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
- Greco-RomanThe Library (Bibliotheca), APOLLODORI BIBLIOTHECA, ch. 33
- Greco-RomanThe Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK II, ch. IV
- IndicThe Mahābhārata, Book 1, Section CXXXIV
- Middle EasternThe Thousand and One Nights, commonly called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments, Chapter 27
- Literary CrystallizationThe Vision; or, Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, Paradise 6
Scholars’ trail — 1reference
The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.
- MaoriBeckwith Myth 481.