King for seven years — Mythoi

Motif

King for seven years.

Miscellaneous groups of motifs. · Formulas. · Other formulistic motifs. · view the constellation · filed as Z71.5.4

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Middle Eastern The Thousand and One Nights, commonly called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments , Chapter 4
Irish Cuchulain of Muirthemne: The Story of the Men of the Red Branch of Ulster , Ch. 4 BRICRIU'S FEAST, AND THE WAR OF WORDS
Reference The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged) , Chapter XLV XLV. The Corn-Mother and the Corn-Maiden in Northern Europe
Greco-Roman Pausanias's Description of Greece , Book 9
Vedic (Indian / Sanskrit) The Hymns of the Rigveda , 1.164

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth Cross.

Within the index

Filed under Formulistic number: seven.

Filed beside it

Formulistic numbers: sevenfold (e.g. 49, 70, 70,000, 7,777). (Cf. Z71.15.) Seven brothers and one sister Journey beyond seven seas Seven year's peace with no killing of men Exile for seven years Seven as a number in religious and social records King with seven wives and seven mares. The seven wives pregnant for seven years, the seven mares seven years in foal Seven brothers marry seven sisters

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