Swearing by the elements: sun, moon, stars, wind — Mythoi

Motif

Swearing by the elements: sun, moon, stars, wind.

Ordaining the future. · Vows and oaths. · Taking of vows and oaths. · view the constellation · filed as M119.1

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth *Cross
Greek Argonautica III 689, Odyssey V 185. → on our shelf: The Odyssey, Book V

Within the index

Filed under Taking of vows and oaths – miscellaneous.

1 finer motif beneath it

Oath by River Styx

Filed beside it

Swearing by (clan) gods Vows taken as an old Norse custom at the festival of Yule Vows taken by placing one's foot on a certain post in the hall Swearing on a stone. (Cf. M114.2.) Swearing by "the Seven Things which they serve." Oath by placing hand on genitals Oath taken by the life of a person

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