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

  • Spanish ExemplaKeller
  • India*Thompson-Balys.
Within the index

Filed under Other means of acquiring wisdom (knowledge).

2 finer motifs beneath it
Holy man's prayer reforms rich man. Holy man prays, "May God bless everything here that is good but cause to disappear all that is bad." Everything disappearsHermit explains why anger is sin
Filed beside it
Wisdom from old personWisdom (knowledge) from sage (teacher)Wise words of dying father. Counsel proved wise by experienceWisdom (knowledge) from womenWisdom from foolsWisdom (knowledge) from dreamWisdom from angelTrial rehearsed before stick in the ground as judgeWisdom acquired by hanging in a treeWisdom purchasedWisdom from GodTree of knowledgeWisdom from booksWisdom from continual reminder of foolishness in the past. Unjust judge skinned and his skin stretched over a footstool kept in the presence of judges, so as to remind them to be justInscription on walls for condensed educationProverbial wisdom: counsels. (Cf. B82.6.)

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