Birth from knee — Mythoi

Motif

Birth from knee.

Sex. · Conception and birth. · Miraculous birth. · view the constellation · filed as T541.16

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Filed across the traditions

S. Am. Indian (Tucuna) Nimuendajú BBAE CXLIII (3) 724.

Within the index

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

Filed beside it

Birth from blood 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

Carried in tale types

Born from Fruit (Fish) · ATU 705A 1 recorded variant
Born from Knee · ATU 705B 1 recorded variant

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