μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
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.

  • HawaiiBeckwith 409f.
  • TongaGifford 31.
Within the index

Filed under End of king's reign.

3 finer motifs beneath it
King commits suicideOld king attackedKing too old to fight goes himself into his grave mound
Filed beside it
King (prince) retires from the world (becomes hermit, swineherd)King must resign if maimed (disfigured)Persons buried with dead kingShavings of spear which killed king cast into cataractKings worshipped after their deathKing slain by "his own household" in revenge for deposing his fatherLand where every raja dies; if he rules for a day he dies that night; if he rules for a night, he dies that dayKing's coffin sunk into river

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