μῦθοι Mythoi
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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.

  • IndiaThompson-Balys.
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Filed under Wisdom (knowledge) taught by parable.

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Three thousand parables of SolomonMinister taught by parable to make obeisance to the new kingThe dishes of the same flavor. Man thus shown that one woman is like another and dissuaded from his amorous purposePriest walks in the mud. Congregation follows evil ways of priest. He walks in mud but they will not follow him. He thus shows them the folly of following his evil waysThe gray and the black hairs: enemies reconciled. Duke summons two inveterate enemies. Has them tear out one of his hairs, one a gray, the other a black. Both pain him equally. He shows how their quarrels hurt him. They are reconciledPicking up water thrown on ground no harder than the undoing of slanderChair over fiery pit as figure of precariousness of lifeRocks falling together and thread entering needle's eye suggest sexual intercourse: hence its beginningMen shamed for their cowardice by woman standing naked before them. (Usually connected with Jus Primae Noctis [T161])Monk shames accuser by telling parable. Wind, Water, and Modesty (Sense of Shame). The first two give their addresses but the third says she has no address as no one wants herBoy saves life by showing father foolishness of plowing up his crop. Father has been persuaded to kill childDifficulty of thinking of God when occupied with worldly affairs. Shown by test: holy man made to carry milk without spilling. So occupied he forgets to think of GodFool digs holes in edge of road. Only those departing from straight path will fall in. Truth of principle later seenMan kills nest of ants: so God punishes man. (Cf. J225.0.4.)Lotus flower flourishes as long as it is in water: king should not leave castleStones shaken in jar: difficulty in learning many dialects

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