Birth from person's head

Motif

Birth from person's head.

Sex. · Conception and birth. · Miraculous birth. · view the constellation · filed as T541.4

“The legend, these writers inform us, was told to explain why the maiden goddess Artemis was invoked by women in childbed, Now Artemis devoted herself to the chase and remained a maid; but Apollo learned the art of prophecy from Pan, theson of Zeus and Hybris,! and came to Delphi, where Themis at that time used to deliver oracles;? and when the snake Python, which guarded the oracle, would have hindered him from approaching the chasm,?…”

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

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GreekThe Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK I, ch. IVThompson cites: *Frazer Apollodorus I 25 n. 2

Scholars’ trail — 4references

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Greek*Frazer Apollodorus I 25 n. 2 → on our shelf: The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK I, ch. IV
IndiaThompson-Balys
HinduKeith 121.
general *Fb "barn" IV 27a

Within the index

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

1 finer motif beneath it

Birth from mouth

Filed beside it

Birth from blood Birth from wound or abscess Birth from tears 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

Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes

Tabu: mortal lusting after goddess Giant. A person of enormous size. (For giants who are primarily ogres see G100 and G400–G599.)Giant wades the ocean Giant throws a great rock Blindness healed by sun's rays Ogre made drunk and overcome Prophecy: future greatness of unborn child. (Cf. M301.2.2, M301.5.1, M301.12, M359.3, M371.1.)God swallows his pregnant wife to prevent birth of son whom he fears Flaying alive as punishment for contesting with a god

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