Head buried one place, body another — Mythoi

Motif

Head buried one place, body another.

Religion. · Religious services. · Funeral rites. · view the constellation · filed as V61.4

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Mesoamerican (Maya / Nahua) Popol Vuh, or Book of the Holy Assembly (Guthrie translation, serialized, truncated) , Part 2, Chapter 2
Greco-Roman The Library (Bibliotheca) , BOOK II, ch. VIII
North American Indigenous Tales of the North American Indians , Tale 25 XXV. THE TRICKSTER’S GREAT FALL AND

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth Cross
Icelandic Boberg.

Within the index

Filed under Various ways of disposing of dead.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Corpse buried face down. (Cf. S139.2.2.3.1.) Dismemberment before burial

Filed beside it

Dead placed on boat Dead burned on pyre. (Cremation.) Coffin buried upright King buried in his war car Christian buried in stone coffin Christian buried in wooden coffin Burial in grave-mound Lion buried in stone cave with gold letters Corpses exposed in tree Aversion to burial in "strange city"

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