μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Birth from contact of severed male genitals with ground.

Sex. · Conception and birth. · Miraculous birth. · view the constellation · filed as T541.9

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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 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
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 blood

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