μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

  • Icelandic*Boberg
  • Jewish*Neuman
  • India*Thompson-Balys.
Within the index

Filed under Other means of acquiring wisdom (knowledge).

4 finer motifs beneath it
Deity appears in dream and gives instructions or adviceWisdom from dream: the leper with the cup of water. Man in dream willing to receive sacrament from unworthy priestFate of parents revealed in dream. Mother shown in Hell; father in HeavenDream advises against the popularizing of science
Filed beside it
Wisdom from old personWisdom (knowledge) from sage (teacher)Wisdom from holy manWise words of dying father. Counsel proved wise by experienceWisdom (knowledge) from womenWisdom from foolsWisdom 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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