μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 4references

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 myth*Cross
  • India*Thompson-Balys.
  • general Alphabet Nos. 24, 145
  • general Wesselski Mönchslatein 170 No. 135
Within the index

Filed under Asceticism.

3 finer motifs beneath it
Ascetic faster increases his sufferings by placing food and drink before himselfPerson refuses to eat daintiesDeath from ascetic devotions
Filed beside it
Kingship renounced to become an asceticSince salvation is predestined, asceticism deemed uselessHusband abandons wife to become asceticMurderer becomes asceticMaintaining silence as ascetic practiceAscetic weepingAsceticism: allowing self no reposeAscetic cleric tortures his fleshAscetic cleric avoids listening to musicAscetic cleric never smilesAscetic immersionAscetic cleric leads mendicant lifeAscetic cleric lives for seven years on whale's backAscetic cleric renounces world (to become a herder)Monk refuses chance of having temptation removed since he considers it strengthening to have it ever present to test himEvil ascetic misuses magic powers obtained through religious meditation

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