Ascetic fasting — Mythoi

Motif

Ascetic fasting.

Religion. · Religious orders. · Clerical virtues and vices. · view the constellation · filed as V462.2

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Filed across the traditions

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 himself Person refuses to eat dainties Death from ascetic devotions

Filed beside it

Kingship renounced to become an ascetic Since salvation is predestined, asceticism deemed useless Husband abandons wife to become ascetic Murderer becomes ascetic Maintaining silence as ascetic practice Ascetic weeping Asceticism: allowing self no repose Ascetic cleric tortures his flesh Ascetic cleric avoids listening to music Ascetic cleric never smiles Ascetic immersion Ascetic cleric leads mendicant life Ascetic cleric lives for seven years on whale's back Ascetic 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 him Evil ascetic misuses magic powers obtained through religious meditation

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