μῦθοι 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

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“Good luck go with you, but if you could only know how much suffering is in store for you before you get back to your own country, you would stay where you are, keep house along with me, and let me make you immortal, no matter how anxious you may be to see this wife of yours, of whom you are thinking all the time day after day; yet I flatter myself that I am no whit less tall or well-looking than she is, for it is not to be expected…”

The Odyssey, Book V · served from our shelf

On our shelf — the index’s citations, resolved to served chapters
  • GreekThe Odyssey, Book VThompson cites: Argonautica III 689, Odyssey V 185.
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.

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) godsVows taken as an old Norse custom at the festival of YuleVows taken by placing one's foot on a certain post in the hallSwearing on a stone. (Cf. M114.2.)Swearing by "the Seven Things which they serve."Oath by placing hand on genitalsOath taken by the life of a person

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