μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Asceticism: allowing self no repose.

Religion. · Religious orders. · Clerical virtues and vices. · view the constellation · filed as V462.4

Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth *Cross.
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Filed under Asceticism.

3 finer motifs beneath it
Asceticism: cleric practices continual genuflexion Cross vigil. Cleric stands with hands extended in shape of cross Saint always extends one hand toward heaven while performing such acts as eating or reaping
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 fasting Ascetic weeping 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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