μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Unique survivor. Only one person left from destruction of his community.

Miscellaneous groups of motifs. · Unique exceptions · Other unique exceptions. · view the constellation · filed as Z356

Filed across the traditions
  • India *Thompson-Balys
  • Hawaii Beckwith Myth 135, 443f., 449
  • Marquesas Handy 77
  • Easter Island Métraux Ethnology 71
  • Tuamotu Stimson MS (z-G. 13/203)
  • Tahiti Henry Ancient Tahiti (Honolulu, 1928) 246.
Within the index

Filed under Other unique exceptions.

1 finer motif beneath it
Z56.1 Unique survivor from detruction of animals
Filed beside it
Only one person refuses to weep at hero's death All trees except aspen refuse to make Christ's cross All snakes but one placated by music. In snake den prisoner fails to placate one snake and loses his life Unique exceptions from curse

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