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Stith Thompson Motif Index
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Stith Thompson's Motif-Index of Folk-Literature classifies recurring narrative elements in folktales, myths, legends, ballads and related traditional narratives. Each entry below gives Thompson's motif reference and the description recorded in the index.
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Mythological Motifs
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Animal Motifs
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Motifs of Tabu
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Magic
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The Dead
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Marvels
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Ogres
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Tests
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The Wise and the Foolish
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Deceptions
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Reversals of Fortune
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Ordaining the Future
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Chance and Fate
P
Society
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Rewards and Punishments
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Captives and Fugitives
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Unnatural Cruelty
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Sex
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The Nature of Life
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Religion
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Traits of Character
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Humor
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Miscellaneous Groups of Motifs
| Thompson reference | Description ▲ |
|---|---|
| A716.1 | Four suns at first: culture hero shoots three down.—Siberian: Holmberg Siberian 420. |
| A651.0.2 | Four world systems. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 117, 1033. |
| A841.1 | Four world-cords. Earth is suspended from the sky by cords at four corners. India: Thompson-Balys; Cherokee: Alexander N.Am. 60. |
| A522.1.4 | Fox as culture hero. S. Am. Indian (Chaco): Métraux BBAE CXLIII (1) 369, (Chiriguano): Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 484. |
| A2215.5 | Fox struck with churn-dash: hence white tail. (Cf. A2378.8.1.)—Cf. Type 3.—Finnish: Aarne FFC VIII 15 No. 79; Estonian: Aarne FFC XXV 146 No. 43. |
| A2213.4.2 | Fox's tail pulled out long. (Cf. A2378.3.4.)—Dh III 3. |
| A2493.29 | Friendship between ant and pheasant. Papua: Ker 118. |
| A2493.32 | Friendship between antelope, woodpecker and tortoise. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 642. |
| A2493.27 | Friendship between bird and crab. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| A2493.18 | Friendship between cat and tiger. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A2493.16 | Friendship between cock and dog. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A2493.30.2 | Friendship between cow and lioness. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 1028. |
| A2493.24 | Friendship between cow and tiger, calf and cub. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A2493.19 | Friendship between crab and cobra. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A2493.5 | Friendship between deer and fish. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A2493.31 | Friendship between dog and elephant. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 137. |
| A2493.20 | Friendship between frog and cricket. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A2493.22 | Friendship between goat and hog. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A2493.21 | Friendship between grasshopper and dungbeetle. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A2493.13 | Friendship between hare and parrot. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A2493.34.1 | Friendship between hen and sparrow. Africa (Wakweli): Bender 51. |
| A2493.11.1 | Friendship between jackal and alligator. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A2493.11 | Friendship between jackal and crocodile. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A2493.11.2 | Friendship between jackal and elephant. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A2493.11.4 | Friendship between jackal and partridge. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A2493.11.3 | Friendship between jackal and tiger. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A2493.8 | Friendship between leopard and goat. Africa (Congo): Weeks Jungle 433ff. |
| A2493.7.1 | Friendship between leopard-cat and night-jar. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A2493.7 | Friendship between leopard-cat and squirrel. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A2493.30.1 | Friendship between lion and jackal. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 775, II 895. |
| A2493.23 | Friendship between louse and crow. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A2493.4 | Friendship between man and dog. India: Thompson-Balys; Africa (Kweli): Sieber 92f. |
| A2493.14 | Friendship between monkey and elephant. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A2493.14.2 | Friendship between monkey and lion. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A2493.14.4 | Friendship between monkey and rabbit. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A2493.14.3 | Friendship between monkey and stork. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A2493.14.1 | Friendship between monkey and tiger. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A2493.28 | Friendship between mouse and butterfly. Papua: Ker 100. |
| A2493.26 | Friendship between parrot and maina. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A2493.14.5 | Friendship between partridge, monkey and elephant. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 1008. |
| A2493.33 | Friendship between pike and crawfish. Africa (Wakweli): Bender 41. |
| A2493.25 | Friendship between snake and crow. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| A2493.6 | Friendship between squirrel and quail. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A2493.17 | Friendship between tiger and deer (fawn). India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A2493.30 | Friendship between tiger and lion. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 623, 823. |
| A2493.12 | Friendship between turtle and heron. New Hebrides: Codrington I 1. |
| A2493.12.1 | Friendship between turtle and wallaby. Papua: Ker I. |
| A2493.15 | Friendship between wolf and ass. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A2493.2 | Friendship of bat and owl. Dh III 355. |
| A2493.9 | Friendship of cat and mouse. Grimm No. 2. |
| A2493.10 | Friendship of fox and titmouse. Cheremis: Sebeok-Nyerges. |
| A2493.34 | Friendship of hen and duck. Africa (Wakweli): Bender 81f. |
| A2493.1 | Friendship of prairie-dog and owl. Dh III 352. |
| A2493.3 | Friendship of tiger and buffalo. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A2493 | Friendships between the animals. Dh III 324ff.—Bödker Exempler 290 No. 45—46.—Indonesian: De Vries's list No. 86. |
| A2212.2 | Frightened animals scatter: cause of present habitat of each. (Cf. A2433.1.)—Kaffir: Theal 172, 176. |
| A2212.1 | Frightened rabbit puts head in charred tree: hence black ears. (Cf. A2325.2.)—Finnish: Aarne FFC VII 13 No. 71. |
| A671.3 | Frigidity of hell. Irish myth: Cross; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 786. |
| A2231.4 | Frog fails to honor infant Jesus: loses tail. (Cf. A2221.1, A2378.2.3.—Dh II 17. |
| A751.3 | Frog in moon. S. Am. Indian (Warrau): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 123. |
| A2426.4.1 | Frog's croak. (See A2275.4.)—Jewish: Neuman; Japanese: Ikeda; Angola: Chatelain 217 No. 38; Liberia: Bundy JAFL XXXII 420. |
| A2426.4.1.1 | Frogs formerly were ducks stolen from Eden by Cain. God changed them to frogs; and so frogs sound like ducks in the spring. (Cf. A2162.)—U. S.: Baughman. |
| A289.1 | Frost-god. Gaster Thespis 345; Type 480 (*Roberts 120).—Finno-Ugric: Holmberg Finno-Ugric 233; Icel.: Boberg. |
| A2743.1 | Fuschia belongs to devil: hence ball and red petals. North Carolina: Brown Coll. I 635. |
| A2386 | Gall-bladder of animal. |
| A163.1 | Game between gods. (Cf. A164.3.1.). |
| A151.2 | Garden of the gods. Hindu: Penzer I 66 n. 1, 68, 96, II 34, III 5, 24, 138, VI 82, VII 129, 148, VIII 73, 165, 170, IX 21, 87 n. 4; Irish myth: Cross; Babylonian: Ungnad Das Gilgamesch Epos IX 163, cf. 148, 163ff.; Jewish: Neuman; Gaster Thespis 171, Oldest Stories 48. |
| A2272.1.3 | Garden warbler hears smith beat iron: learns his song. (Cf. A2426.2.2.)—Estonian: Aarne FFC XXV 148 No. 55. |
| A2426.2.2 | Garden warbler's song. (See A2272.1.3.) |
| A671.5 | Gate around hell. Icel.: MacCulloch Eddic 130, Boberg. |
| A661.0.1.1 | Gate of heaven guarded by clap of thunder and mysterious sword. Chinese: Werner. |
| A661.0.1 | Gate of heaven. |
| A1154 | Genealogy of summer and winter. Icel.: Boberg. |
| A2423 | General quality of animal's voice. |
| A1127.2 | Gentle west wind said to be exhausted from fleeing deity. Maori: Clark 46. |
| A737.4 | Ghosts of the sun's children return to cause eclipse. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A523 | Giant as culture hero. Irish myth: Cross; Persian: Carnoy 294; Chinese: Werner 305. |
| A928 | Giant drinks up ocean. Hindu: Keith 146.—Cf. Icel.: Meyer Mythologie der Germanen (1903) 244 (Thor lowers level of ocean). |
| A133.1 | Giant god drinks lakes dry. (Indra).—Hindu: Keith 33. |
| A133.2.1 | Giant god goes with three steps through the world. Güntert Weltkönig 293ff.; Hopkins JAOS XVI Proc. cxlvii. |
| A133 | Giant god. (cf. A128.2). Irish myth: Cross; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| A133.2 | Giant goddess bestrides entire land. One foot is in the north of the country and the other is in the south.—Irish: MacCulloch Celtic 30; Irish myth: Cross. |
| A751.9.3 | Giant in moon. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 736. |
| A133.3 | Giant orderly of the gods. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A1791 | Giant ox ancestor of all animals. Persian: Carnoy 289. |
| A977.1 | Giant responsible for certain stones. (Cf. A963.1.)—Canada, England, U.S., Wales: *Baughman; Icel.: Boberg. |
| A523.1 | Giant sword of culture hero. Fb. "sværd" III 691a.; Irish myth: Cross. |
| A934.11.1 | Girl reincarnated as river so god Vishnu can lie in its bed in the form of a stone. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A751.8.5 | Girl with tree carried to moon and is seen there. Samoa: Clark 119. |
| A661.4 | Girls dancing in heaven. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A2426.3.2 | Gnat's buzz. (See A2236.1.) |
| A2033.0.1 | Gnats created by devil to worry God. Lithuanian: Balys Legends No. 131f. |
| A671.2.7 | Gnats in hell. Irish myth: Cross. |
| A661.1.0.2 | Goat (Heidrún) in Valhalla gives mead. Icel.: Boberg. |
| A450.1 | God "of many arts". Irish myth: Cross. |
| A433.5 | God (angel) of grass. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A182.3 | God (angel) speaks to mortal. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A123.10 | God (deity) girdled with snakes; on his forehead shines the moon. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A478.3 | God (goddess) of cholera. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| A441 | God (goddess) of domestic animals. Persian: Carnoy 260; Irish myth: Cross. |
| A433.4 | God (goddess) of fruit. Roman: Fox 290 (Pomona); Jewish: Neuman. |
| A474.2 | God (goddess) of longevity. Chinese: Werner 171, 214, Ferguson 81; Japanese: Anesaki 280. |
| A478.2 | God (goddess) of smallpox. India: *Thompson-Balys; Korean: Zong in-Sob 57 No. 32. |
| A443 | God (goddess) of wild animals. Irish myth: Cross. |
| A137.4 | God (goddess) with basket. Irish myth: Cross. |
| A137.5 | God (goddess) with cornucopia. Irish myth: Cross. |
| A151.6.1 | God (Indra) has palace on Milky Way. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A182.3.5 | God advises mortal. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A810.1 | God and Devil fly together over primeval water. Dh I 6. |
| A63.4.1 | God and the devil torment each other with their creations. Devil pesters God with gnats. God makes a fire and safeguards himself; God plagues the devil with fleas—devil is unable to find means of protecting himself.—Lithuanian: Balys Index 3082; Balys Legends No. 131ff. |
| A139.8 | God appears as an object. |
| A139.8.1 | God as a tree trunk. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 284. |
| A109.1 | God as a triad. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 44; Icel.: Boberg. |
| A142.0.1 | God as blacksmith. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A451.2.1 | God as canoe builder. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 15. |
| A141 | God as craftsman. Hephaistos.—Greek: Fox 206.—Tahiti: Henry 342. |
| A181.2 | God as cultivator. India: Thompson-Balys; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 17. |
| A177.1 | God as dupe or trickster. Irish myth: Cross. |
| A2216.6 | God as falcon has tail cut off: hence falcon's short tail. Icel.: Boberg. |
| A184 | God as founder and protector of certain peoples. |
| A189.15 | God as fructifier of mankind and the earth. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A465.2.0.1 | God as harper. Irish myth: Cross. |
| A187.1 | God as judge of men. Greek: Fox 227, Wienert FFC LVI 36; Icel.: MacCulloch Eddic 162 (Forseti); Jewish: *Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys, Penzer I 198ff., II 249, IV 238, 275f., VIII 64, 108 n. 1, 163 n. 1, 184, 215. |
| A164.6 | God as lover of giantess. Icel.: *Boberg. |
| A131.1 | God as part man, part fish. Babylonian: Spence 151 (Dagon); Assyrian: ibid. 216; Jewish: Neuman.—Samoa: Beckwith Myth 76. |
| A178 | God as prophet. Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| A184.1 | God as protector of Israel. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| A179.1 | God as rath-builder. Irish myth: Cross. |
| A120.1 | God as shape-shifter. Irish myth: Cross. |
| A112.4 | God as son of giant. Icel.: MacCulloch Eddic 139 (Loki), 324 (Odin, Vili, and Ve), Boberg. |
| A112.4.1 | God as son of giantess. Icel.: Boberg. |
| A112.5 | God as son of nine giantesses. Icel.: MacCulloch Eddic 153 (Heimdall). |
| A177 | God as thief. Greek: *Frazer Apollodorus II 6 n. 1 (Hermes). |
| A132.15 | God as tortoise. Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 139. |
| A171.0.2 | God ascends to heaven. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 109; Maori: Beckwith Myth 83; So. Am. Indian (Huamachuco): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 151. |
| A1082.2.2 | God battles hound of hell at end of world. Icel.: Boberg. |
| A1082.4 | God battles Leviathan at end of world. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A182.3.3 | God blesses mortal. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A141.3 | God bores hole in Hell to cause great heat on earth. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A112.7.4 | God born after prematurely short pregnancy. Marquesas: Handy 107. |
| A114.2 | God born from egg. Tahiti: Henry 337; Marquesas: Handy 104.—So. Am. Indian (Huamachuco): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 151. |
| A112.7.2 | God born from mother's armpit. Marquesas: Handy 107. |
| A112.7.1 | God born from mother's ear. Marquesas: Handy 107. |
| A112.7 | God born from peculiar part of parent's body. |
| A114.1.1.1 | God born of another god's sweat. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A141.2 | God builds temple in heaven and brings it later to earth. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A137.4.1 | God carries brothers and sisters on his back in basket. Hivaoa (Marquesas): Handy 116. |
| A185.14.1 | God causes mortals' sin. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A816.3 | God causes primeval sea to roll back and leave bare all the hills. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A2286.2.4 | God changes color (tails) of devil's cows. Devil makes all animals of same color (or all tailless). When God makes them of different colors (or with tails) devil no longer recognizes them. (Cf. A2378.1.)—Esthonian: Aarne FFC XXV 146 No. 47; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3083, Legends Nos. 134—137. |
| A2723.2 | God changes nature of plant to punish wastefulness of man: yield of plant is decreased. German: Grimm No. 194. |
| A181.1 | God clears plains. Irish myth: Cross. |
| A1082.5 | God conquers Satan at end of world. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A182.3.1 | God consoles mortal. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A42.2 | God consults mercy on his right and justice on his left. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A42.1.1 | God consults two angels on creation. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A185.14 | God controls mortals' sinning. |
| A52.0.8 | God created angels by striking one small stone with another. Lucifer created devils by imitation. Lithuanian: Balys Legends Nos. 1, 3. |
| A195.1 | God dealing with his angels. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A179.3 | God deliberately has enemies kill him. Hivaoa (Marquesas): Handy 105. |
| A171.0.3 | God descends from heaven. |
| A171.0.3.2 | God descends in form of shooting star. New Zealand: Beckwith Myth 113. |
| A171.0.3.1 | God descends on rainbow. Tahiti: Henry 232; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 37. |
| A179.7 | God divests self of earthly raiment and clothes self with lightning. Maori: Beckwith Myth 83. |
| A182.3.0.4 | God does not directly address women; uses interpreter. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A182.0.1 | God does not reveal himself; men unable to endure his glory. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A171.0.1 | God drives chariot over waves. Irish myth: Cross. |
| A52.0.7 | God drops water from his finger and the drops become angels. Lucifer imitated God and created devils.—Lithuanian: Balys Legends No. 2. |
| A151.13 | God dwells alone in darkness. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 42. |
| A151.10 | God dwells at particular point on earth. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A111.3.1 | God dwells with his grandfathers. Marquesas: Handy 106. |
| A185.15 | God establishes peace between mortals. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A171.2 | God flies in bird plumage. Icel.: MacCulloch Eddic 83, Boberg; Greek: Iliad and Odyssey passim. |
| A171.3 | God flies in pillar of floating clouds, thunder, and lightning. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 29. |
| A112.8 | God from adulterous union. Irish myth: Cross. |
| A112.1.1 | God from father-daughter incest. Adonis. Greek: Spence 132.—Icel.: Boberg. |
| A112.1 | God from incestuous union. Krappe The Review of Religion (1941); India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A179.2 | God given dominion over floating island. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 71. |
| A2571.0.3 | God gives animals their name on first Sabbath. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A182.2 | God gives name to child. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A122 | God half mortal, half immortal. Hair, skin, flesh, bones and marrow are mortal; mind, voice, breath, eye, and ear are immortal. (prajapati).—Hindu: Keith 76; cf. Greek: Grote I 3. |
| A155.5.1 | God has enormous elephant. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 457. |
| A155.7 | God has his dairies and buffaloes. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A199.2 | God has magic vision only from his throne. Icel.: MacCulloch Eddic 22. |
| A179.6 | God has power to create men. Marquesas: Handy 122. |
| A185.1 | God helps mortal in battle. Jewish: Neuman; Irish myth: Cross. |
| A179.8 | God hides from sun in shadow of a cloud. Tuamotu: Stimson MS (T-G 3/191). |
| A132 | God in animal form. *De Visser Die nicht menschengestaltigen Götter der Griechen (Leiden, 1903).—Egyptian: Müller 15ff.; Chibcha: Alexander Lat. Am. 204 (fox, bear); Irish myth: Cross; India: Thompson-Balys; Chinese: *Krappe "Far Eastern Fox Lore" CFQ III (1944) 124ff.; Jewish: Neuman. |
| A124.5 | God in form of comet. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 113. |
| A182.3.4.1 | God in form of fakir visits king and gives him advice. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A151.8 | God in sea of milk. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| A139.8.6 | God in shape of an image. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 2, Chap. I passim. |
| A132.0.1 | God in successive animal forms. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A132.0.1.2 | God in three forms: gecho, shark, or priest. Tonga: Beckwith Myth 128. |
| A131.4 | God in tiger's skin. Hindu: Keith 81, 111; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A115.2 | God issues from earth. Norse: MacCulloch Eddic 328 (Tuisto). |
| A189.4 | God jealous of a mortal. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A192.1.2 | God killed and eaten. Easter Is.: Métraux Ethnology 311. |
| A185.6.1 | God kisses mortal. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A141.4 | God lays foundations of earth. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A119.1 | God made by magic. Tahiti: Henry 341.—So. Am. Indian (Apapocuvá-Guarani): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 122. |
| A141.1 | God makes automata and vivifies them. Icel.: Boberg; Greek: Fox 207; Africa (Luba): Donohugh Africa V 180. |
| A1903 | God makes birds, devil reptiles. (Cf. A1751).—Finnish: Aarne FFC VIII 19 No. 105, XXXIII 54 No. 105; Estonian: Aarne FFC XXV 148 No. 58; Lithuanian: Balys Legends No. 124—129. |
| A185.2.2 | God makes man's hand rigid so he can no longer torment captive. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A182.3.4 | God makes promises to mortal. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A2286.0.1 | God makes serpent ugly. (Cf. A2402.1, A2494.)—Finnish: Aarne FFC VIII 19 No. 109. |
| A185.2.3 | God makes sword drop from assailant's hands. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A67 | God makes things and tosses them into the air; what he catches is good for mankind, what opponent catches is bad. New Hebrides: Beckwith Myth 61. |
| A123.1 | God monstrous as to body. |
| A123.4 | God monstrous as to head. |
| A432 | God of agriculture. Irish myth: Cross; Roman: Frazer Ovid III 2 n. 1; Finno-Ugric: Holmberg Finno-Ugric 244; India: Thompson-Balys; Japanese: Anesaki 232; Chinese: Werner 239.—Maori: Dixon 32; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 15, 20, 61, and chap. II passim. |
| A440 | God of animals. Jewish: Neuman; Irish myth: Cross. |
| A462 | God of beauty. Tahiti: Henry 128. |
| A414 | God of boundaries. *Frazer Ovid I 95ff., II 481ff.—India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A451.2 | God of carpenters. Tonga: Beckwith Myth 317. |
| A415 | God of clans or nations. Jewish: Neuman.—Hopi: Alexander N. Am. 189. |
| A413.1 | God of cross-roads. Frazer Ovid II 453ff.—Irish myth: Cross. |
| A270 | God of dawn. Gaster Thespis 228. |
| A487 | God of death. *Wesselski Archiv Orientální I 300ff.—Hindu: Penzer X 365 s.v. "Yama"; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 680; India: *Thompson-Balys; Maori: Clark 8, 135; Marshall Is.: Davenport 222; S. Am. Indian (Toba): Métraux Myths 19; Icel.: Boberg. |
| A488 | God of destruction. India: Thompson-Balys |
| A478 | God of disease. |
| A441.1 | God of domestic beasts. |
| A441.2 | God of domestic fowls. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 120. |
| A111.3.0.1 | God of double sex carries within him seed of gods. Greek: Grote I 16. |
| A499.5 | God of dreams. Greek: Grote II 115. |
| A400 | God of earth. Greek: *Grote I 3; Irish myth: Cross; Egyptian: Müller 42; Persian: Carnoy 260; India: Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Graham, Eberhard FFC CXX 42, 120. |
| A445.2 | God of eels. Maori: Clark 163; Samoa: Clark 70. |
| A465.3.0.1 | God of eloquence and learning as inventor of ogam alphabet. Irish myth: Cross. |
| A465.3 | God of eloquence and learning. Irish myth: Cross. |
| A252 | God of evening star. Greek: Fox 247 (Hesperos). |
| A463.0.1 | God of fate in shape of golden frog. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A463 | God of fate. Irish myth: Cross; Greek: Grote I 10; Egyptian: Müller 52; Slavic (general): Máchal Slavic 249ff.; Siberian: Holmberg Siberian 392. |
| A489.3 | God of fear. |
| A431 | God of fertility. Irish myth: Cross; Greek: Fox 160; Roman: Frazer Ovid II 172; Icel.: De la Saussaye 252; Krappe "Ingvi-Frey and Aengus Mac Oc" Scandinavian Studies (1943) 174—178.—Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 13, 93, chap. II passim; Marshall Is.: Davenport 222. |
| A478.4 | God of fevers. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A493 | God of fire. Greek: Fox 205; Russian: Máchal 298; Persian: Carnoy 260, 284; Jewish: Neuman; Hindu: Keith 43, Penzer X 163 s.v. "God of Fire" (Agni); India: *Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 952, II 8; Armenian: Ananikian 33; Finno-Ugric: Holmberg Finno-Ugric 235; Siberian: Holmberg Siberian 454; Chinese: Ferguson 76, Werner 237, 283.—Huichol: Alexander Lat. Am. 121; Maori: Clark 41; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 170; Tahiti: Henry 130, 241; Icel.: Boberg. |
| A445 | God of fish. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 11, 60, 90. |
| A455 | God of fishing. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 15. |
| A441.1.2 | God of flocks. Russian: Máchal 300. |
| A482 | God of gambling (luck). Hindu: Penzer IV 240 n. 1. |
| A451.3 | God of handicrafts. |
| A467 | God of happiness. Chinese: Werner 169. |
| A454 | God of healing. *Jayne The Healing Gods of Ancient Civilizations (New Haven 1925); *Hopf Die Heilgötter und Heilstätten des Altertums (Tübingen 1904). —Irish myth: Cross; Greek: Fox 179, *Grote I 166f.; Hindu: Penzer III 258; India: Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Werner 247.—Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 115. |
| A211 | God of heaven. (cf. A210). Icel.: De la Saussaye 233 (Odin); Jewish: Neuman; Gaster Thespis 122f.—Siberian: Holmberg Siberian 390; Armenian: Ananikian 11, 14, 37; Chinese: Werner 331, Graham; Hindu: Penzer III 257, IV 177 n. 1.—African: Werner African 127.—Pawnee: Alexander N. Am. 80 ("Father Heaven"); Hivaoa (Marquesas): Handy 133. |
| A452 | God of hunting. Icel.: MacCulloch Eddic 156 (Ullr); Assyrian: Spence 216.—Cherokee: Alexander N. Am. 69. |
| A481 | God of intoxication (or of wine). W. F. Otto, Dionysos: Mythos und Kultus (Frankfurt a. M. 1933).—Greek: Fox 219; Hindu: Keith 46; India: Thompson-Balys.—S. Am. Indian (Chibcha): Kroeber BBAE CXLIII (2) 908. |
| A464 | God of justice. Icel.: MacCulloch Eddic 162 (Forseti); Jewish: Neuman; Assyrian: *Spence 222; Persian: Carnoy 260f.; Hindu: Penzer I 4, 84 n. 1; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A489.4 | God of laughter. Greek: Hesiod (Momus). |
| A260 | God of light. Greek: Fox 179 (Apollo); Icel.: De la Saussaye 253ff. (Balder); Maori: Clark 14, 171n. |
| A285 | God of lightning. Gaster Thespis 213; Irish myth: Cross; Hindu: Keith 36; Chinese: Dawsel Magie und Geheimwissenschaft 150.—Maori: Beckwith Myth 250. |
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