μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 6references

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.

  • IndiaThompson-Balys
  • IcelandicBoberg.
  • general Grimm Deutsche Rechtsalterthümer I 290ff.
  • general Eisler Weltenmantel 337
  • general Wundt Völkerpsychologie VI 354ff.
  • general Brinton Myths of the New World 66ff.
Within the index

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 elementsThe four humorsFour places that cleanse the soulFour categories of souls at JudgmentFour things that prevent the holy lifeFour things to which the glory of the world is comparedSending four messengers with four winds
Filed beside it
Odd numbers – formulisticFormulistic numbers: a number plus one (101, 1001, etc.)Formulistic number: threeFormulistic number: fiveFormulistic number: sixFormulistic number: sevenFormulistic number: nine (99, 900, 999, 99,999, etc.)Formulistic number: elevenFormulistic number: twelveFormulistic number: thirteenFormulistic number: sixteenFormulistic number: thirty. (Cf. Z71.1.0.1.)Formulistic number: fortyFormulistic 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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