μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Birth from blood.

Sex. · Conception and birth. · Miraculous birth. · view the constellation · filed as T541.1

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Filed under Birth from unusual part of person's body.

1 finer motif beneath it
Birth from blood-clot
Filed beside it
Birth from wound or abscess Birth from tears Birth from person's head Birth from man's thigh Birth from an arm Birth from an eye Birth from secretions of the body Birth from contact of severed male genitals with ground Birth from semen thrown on ground Birth from lotus issuing from a god's navel Birth from nine mothers. (Cf. A112.5.) Birth from man's shoulder Birth through the ear Birth through the back Birth from knee
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Conception from blood. (Cf. T541.1, T563.2.)
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
The Furies. Goddesses of vengeance World parents: sky-father and earth-mother as parents of the universe. The sky-father descends upon the earth-mother and begets the world Nine days' fall from heaven to earth; the same from earth to hell Person with one eye in center of forehead. (Cf. F441.4.1, F531.1.1.1.) Hundred-handed giants Birth from contact of severed male genitals with ground

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