Simultaneous births

Motif

Simultaneous births.

Sex. · Conception and birth. · Childbirth. · view the constellation · filed as T589.7

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

NorseThe First Nine Books of the Danish History of Saxo Grammaticus, Book 5
Mesoamerican (Maya / Nahua)Popol Vuh, or Book of the Holy Assembly (Guthrie translation, serialized, truncated), Introduction

Scholars’ trail — 1reference

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

Irish mythCross.

Within the index

Filed under Childbirth – miscellaneous motifs.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Simultaneous birth of (domestic) animal and child Hero born in hour of Christ's Nativity

Filed beside it

Co-operative birth. Each of two wives bears a half-boy. They are placed together and form a real boy Boy cut in two: each half becomes a boy Birth trees. Spring forth as hero is born; act as life tokens, etc. (Cf. T589.7.1.)Birth with veil brings luck. (Cf. T552.5.1.)New-born child reincarnation of recently deceased person Where children come from. Explanations given to children Woman strives to delay birth until auspicious day Child with several mothers. (Heimdal.)

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