Birth from contact of severed male genitals with ground

Motif

Birth from contact of severed male genitals with ground.

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

“Sky was the first who ruled over the whole world. And having wedded Earth, he begat first the Hundred-handed, as they are named: Briareus, Gyes, Cottus, who were unsurpassed in size and might, each of them having a hundred hands and fifty heads.? After these, Earth bore him the Cyclopes, that the Sky-god and the Earth-goddess are the parents of the principal spirits who dispense life and death, weal and woe, among mankind.”

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

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GreekThe Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK I, ch. IThompson cites: Frazer Apollodorus I 5 n. 4.

Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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GreekFrazer Apollodorus I 5 n. 4. → on our shelf: The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK I, ch. I

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 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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