μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Formulistic number: eight.

Miscellaneous groups of motifs. · Formulas. · Other formulistic motifs. · view the constellation · filed as Z71.16.1

Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth *Cross
  • Chinese Eberhard FFC CXX 154, 210, 411 s. v. "acht"
  • Polynesia *Beckwith Myth 209f.
  • Hawaii ibid. 233
  • Tahiti ibid. 209
  • Cook Islands ibid. 256, Samoa: ibid. 256
  • Easter Island Métraux Ethnology 80, 376.
Within the index

Filed under Formulistic numbers – miscellaneous.

4 finer motifs beneath it
Eight deadly sins Eight virtues Eight miracles of Christ's body in the sacrament Eight unprofitable types of fasting
Filed beside it
Formulistic number: ten Formulistic number: twenty-five Formulistic number: twenty-six Formulistic number: thirty-two Formulistic number: eighty Formulistic number: sixteen hundred Formulistic number: eighty thousand Formulistic number: fifty-two lakhs Formulistic number: fourteen Formulistic number: fifteen Formulistic number: seventeen Formulistic number: twenty-one Formulistic number: twenty-two Formulistic number: fifty-three Formulistic number: fifty-six

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