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Motif

Formulistic number: four.

Miscellaneous groups of motifs. · Formulas. · Other formulistic motifs. · view the constellation · filed as Z71.2

Filed across the traditions
  • India Thompson-Balys
  • Icelandic Boberg.
  • general Grimm Deutsche Rechtsalterthümer I 290ff.
  • general Eisler Weltenmantel 337
  • general Wundt Völkerpsychologie VI 354ff.
  • general Brinton Myths of the New World 66ff.
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Filed under Formulistic numbers.

9 finer motifs beneath it
Formulistic number: fourfold (e.g. 400, 4000) Formula: north, south, east, west. (The cardinal directions.) The four elements The four humors Four places that cleanse the soul Four categories of souls at Judgment Four things that prevent the holy life Four things to which the glory of the world is compared Sending four messengers with four winds
Filed beside it
Odd numbers – formulistic Formulistic numbers: a number plus one (101, 1001, etc.) Formulistic number: three Formulistic number: five Formulistic number: six Formulistic number: seven Formulistic number: nine (99, 900, 999, 99,999, etc.) Formulistic number: eleven Formulistic number: twelve Formulistic number: thirteen Formulistic number: sixteen Formulistic number: thirty. (Cf. Z71.1.0.1.) Formulistic number: forty Formulistic number: sixty. (Cf. Z71.4.) Formulistic number: seventy-two. (Cf. Z71.8.) Formulistic number: seventy-seven. (Cf. Z71.5.0.1.)

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