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Punishment for splitting head and eating man's brains.

Rewards and punishments. · Deeds punished. · Crimes punished. · view the constellation · filed as Q211.7

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“Further, they all, except Anto- ninus Liberalis, agree that the blindness of Tiresias was a punishment inflicted on him by Hera (Juno) because his answer to the question was displeasing to her. According to Phlegon, Hyginus, Lactantius Placidus, and the Second beheld snakes copulating on Cyllene, and that having wounded them he was turned from a man into a woman, but that on observing the same snakes copulating again, he became ἃ man.!”

— The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK III, ch. VI · served from our shelf uncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan

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Filed under Murder punished. (Cf. Q411.6, Q413.4, Q414.0.12, Q416.0.2, Q417.1, Q421.0.4, Q424.0.1, Q431.1, Q431.9, Q450.1.1, Q451.1.4, Q451.2.3, Q451.4.5, Q451.7.4, Q469.6, Q469.12, Q491.6, Q497, Q511, Q511.1, Q512.0.1, Q520.1, Q545, Q551.3.3, Q551.8.3, Q552.3.0.2, Q556.2, Q556.10, Q558.9, Q582.3.)

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God revenges murder after thirty yearsEnormity of kin murderEmperor punished for his many murders. He is carried to hellParricide punished. (Cf. Q552.2.3.3, Q552.3.1.1, Q553.3.3.)Matricide punishedUxoricide punished. (Cf. Q414.0.1, Q416.0.2.1, Q596.1.)Murder of children punished. (Cf. Q418.2, Q455.1, Q553.5.)Suicide punished. (Cf. Q503.1.)Killing an animal revenged. (Cf. Q231, Q424.1, Q582.4.)Punishment for desire to murder. (Cf. Q210.1, Q469.4, Q552.19.2.)Fratricide punished. (Cf. Q411, Q414.0.13.)Punishment for murder of co-wifePunishment for wholesale massacre of tribeMurder of parents punished by member of familySlave killed who killed enemy at owner's order
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Bird language learned by having ears magically cleansedHelpful horseAnimals save person's life. (Cf. B540.)Tabu: revealing secrets of godTabu: man looking at nude goddessTransformation: man to womanMan looks at copulating snakes: transformed to woman. (Cf. D12.)Sphinx propounds riddle on pain of deathRiddle of the Sphinx: what is it that goes on four legs in the morning, on two at midday, and on three in the evening. (Man, who crawls as a child, walks in middle life, and walks with a stick in old age.)Zeus smites Capaneus while he is climbing a ladderPunishment: banishment (exile)Blinding as punishment

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