μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Reward for religious sacrifice.

Rewards and punishments. · Deeds rewarded. · Piety rewarded. · view the constellation · filed as Q21

Filed across the traditions
  • India *Thompson-Balys
  • Buddhist myth Malalasekera I 427.
Within the index

Filed under Piety rewarded.

1 finer motif beneath it
Old woman gives her only cow believing she would receive a hundred in return from God. A bishop hearing of her faith sends her a hundred cows
Filed beside it
Reward for service of god, hero, or ascetic for a period Fulfillment of precepts rewarded Reward for faith Reward for securing converts Reward for carrying Christ across a stream. Christ is in the form of a child. (St. Christopher.) Keeping fast rewarded Reward for faith: boy doomed to die saved (miraculously) Reward for religious pilgrimage Reward for offering food to crucifix (Madonna) Reward for saying of prayers. (Cf. V50.) Reward for austerities of hermit. (Cf. Q144.1.) The further he must carry water, the greater his heavenly reward Reward for writing hymn. (Cf. Q172.5.) Reward for repentance. (Cf. Q174.1.) Reward for carrying out dead man's request Reward for attendance on holy man. (Cf. Q116.1.) Piety rewarded – miscellaneous

ask the rhapsode about this motif · search the shelf for “religious” · wander