μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
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.

  • Irish mythCross.
Within the index

Filed under Tests of social position.

4 finer motifs beneath it
Test imposed on young princes as candidates for throneTwo deities test virtues of a kingThe burning forge (smithy): he who salvages anvil will be kingHe who wins maiden queen is king
Filed beside it
Social rank determined according to portion taken from cauldron of foodTests for noble bloodFruitfulness of nature as proof of kingly right

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