μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

  • general *Type 922
  • general *Anderson FFC XLII 130.
Within the index

Filed under Riddles of terrestrial distance.

2 finer motifs beneath it
How deep is the sea? A stone's throwHow deep is the sea? At first, knee-deep; further on, waist-deep, neck-deep; and beyond that over the head
Filed beside it
Riddle: how far is it from one end of the earth to the other (east to west)?Riddle: how deep is the earth (or how far to lower world)?Riddle: what is the center of the earth?

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