μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Eyes of beheaded person gouged out.

Unnatural cruelty. · Revolting murders or mutilations. · Mutilations. · view the constellation · filed as S165.1

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“And having engaged the enemy they got the better of him both by land and sea, and slew Tisamenus, son of Orestes.? Their allies, Pamphylus and Dymas, the sons of Aegimius, also fell in the fight. When they had made themselves masters of Pelo- ponnese, they set up three altars of Paternal Zeus, and sacrificed upon them, and cast lots for the cities. So the first drawing was for Argos, the second for Lacedaemon, and the third for Messene.”

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

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Filed under Mutilation: putting out eyes.

Filed beside it
Crane pecks out tiger's eyesBlinding by thrusting needles into eyesEyes torn out and filled with sandNecklace made of torn out human eyesHuman eyes used as fishbaitArtisan who has built palace blinded so he cannot build another like it. (Cf. S161.0.1, W181.2.)
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Ambiguous oracleChurch (altar) as refuge

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