Head buried one place, body another

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-RomanThe Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK II, ch. VIII
North American IndigenousTales of the North American Indians, Tale 25XXV. THE TRICKSTER’S GREAT FALL AND

Scholars’ trail — 2references

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 mythCross
IcelandicBoberg.

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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