μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Ascetic immersion.

Religion. · Religious orders. · Clerical virtues and vices. · view the constellation · filed as V462.8

Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth *Cross.
Within the index

Filed under Asceticism.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Saint confines himself in narrow pen during Lent Saint stands (asleep) while bird builds nest and hatches brood in his hand
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 Asceticism: allowing self no repose Ascetic cleric tortures his flesh Ascetic cleric avoids listening to music Ascetic cleric never smiles 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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