μῦθοι Mythoi
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Birth from person's head.

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

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

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Birth from mouth
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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
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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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