μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
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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.

  • JewishNeuman.
Within the index
4 finer motifs beneath it
Riddle: why is the hair gray before the beard? (It is twenty years older.)Riddle: why are there more days than nights? (The moon turns some nights into days.)Riddle: why are there more living than dead? (There are some of the dead of whom we still speak.)Riddle: why are there more women than men? (Some women make women [i.e., weaklings] of their husbands.)

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