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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
K
Deceptions
L
Reversals of Fortune
M
Ordaining the Future
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Chance and Fate
P
Society
Q
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 ▲ |
|---|---|
| A179.2 | God given dominion over floating island. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 71. |
| Q176 | God gives "peace and favorable weather" in consequence of enactment of good law. (Cf. Q153.) Irish myth: Cross. |
| A2571.0.3 | God gives animals their name on first Sabbath. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A182.2 | God gives name to child. Jewish: Neuman. |
| V227.1 | God gives staff of Jesus to saint. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| K551.22.2 | God grants man twenty years more of life provided he plays no tricks. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q174.1.1.2 | God grants to saint the boon that no one buried in any of his churches shall go to hell. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q174.1.1.3 | God grants to saint the boon that two persons are to be rescued from hell by him "to the end of the world." Irish myth: Cross. |
| 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. |
| G303.8.1.1 | God has Elias drive devils from heaven. They use thunder, lightning, and rain for forty days. Dh I 133f. |
| 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). |
| R2 | God holds the devil captive for three years. Dh. I 184. |
| 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. |
| H45.4 | God in disguise recognized by tokens on his feet and hands. Greek: Homer Iliad XIII 71. |
| 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. |
| D42 | God in guise of mortal. Irish: MacCulloch Celtic 56, *Cross; Greek: Iliad and Odyssey passim; Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys; Marquesas: Handy 109. |
| 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. |
| J1262.2 | God in the puddle. A Jew objects to the doctrine that God could exist in the Virgin Mary. A disputant asks if he believes God is everywhere; then if God is in a mud puddle. The Jew agrees. The disputant condemns the Jew for believing that God could exist in a puddle and not in a pure virgin. *Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 154. |
| 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. |
| T53.4 | God occupied with matchmaking. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| 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. |
| A446.1 | God of lizards. Maori: Clark 91. |
| A475 | God of love. Krappe "Diarmuid and Grainne" FL XLVII (1936) 347—361.—Irish myth: Cross; Hindu: Keith 141; Penzer X 163 s.v. "God of Love"; Greek: Roscher I 1339 s.v. "Eros". |
| A483 | God of mercy. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A492 | God of metals. Irish myth: Cross; Persian: Carnoy 260. |
| A251 | God of morning star. *Handwb. d. Abergl. IX Nachträge 17f.; Greek: Fox 247 (Phosphoros). |
| A465.2 | God of music. Greek: Fox 181. |
| A253 | God of north star. |
| A484 | God of oaths. |
| A443.2.1 | God of owls. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 123. |
| A465.5 | God of pictorial art. |
| A465.1 | God of poetry. Greek: Fox 181; Irish myth: Cross; Icel.: MacCulloch Eddic 55 (Odin), 160 (Bragi). |
| A499.6 | God of poison. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 112. |
| A471 | God of prophecy. Greek: Fox 178; Norse: Herrmann Nordische Mythologie 306ff. (Odin); India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| A446 | God of reptiles. |
| A433.1.1 | God of rice-fields. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| A413 | God of roads (streets). *Frazer Pausanias II 417.—Irish myth: Cross. |
| A456 | God of sailors. |
| A485.3 | God of single-combats. Norse: MacCulloch Eddic 156 (Ullr). |
| A472 | God of sleep. |
| A451.1 | God of smith-work. Gaster Thespis 136, 154f.; Irish: MacCulloch Celtic 28; Greek: Fox 206 (Hephaistos); Norse: Herrmann Nordische Mythologie 115ff. (Weland). |
| A499.4 | God of sorcery. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 15, 29f., 108. |
| A665.1 | God of space upholds sky. Egyptian: Müller 44. |
| A496.1 | God of spring. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 992. |
| A427 | God of springs. |
| A499.3 | God of stones. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 88. |
| A489.2 | God of strength. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A310.4 | God of suicide. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 177. |
| A465.5.1 | God of tattooing. Tahiti: Henry 234. |
| A216 | God of the air. *Encyc. Religion and Ethics s.v. "Air and gods of the air"; Greek: Grote I 3; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A465 | God of the arts. Greek: Grote I 43 (Apollo). |
| A446.2 | God of the cutworm. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth. |
| A465.4 | God of the dance. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 16. |
| A108.1 | God of the dead. Irish myth: Cross; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 60. |
| J1441 | God of the earth. Question from the king: "Who are you?" "I am God." "Make my eyes larger." "I am only God of the earth and have power only below the girdle." *Köhler-Bolte I 504; *Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin I 279 No. 326. |
| A493.2 | God of the furnace. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A310.3 | God of the hanged. Icel.: MacCulloch Eddic 43ff. (Odin). |
| A108 | God of the living and the dead in the otherworld. Chinese: Werner 248. |
| A496 | God of the seasons. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| A310.2 | God of the slain. Icel.: MacCulloch Eddic 44 (Odin). |
| A445.1 | God of the squid. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 60. |
| A300 | God of the underworld. Gaster Thespis 136; Greek: Grote I 3; Irish myth: Cross; Babylonian: Spence 105, 150; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 695; Korean: Zong in-Sob 92 No. 50; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 200f.; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 114; Fiji: Beckwith Myth 138; Nukuhiva (Marquesas): Handy 122.—Aztec: Alexander Lat. Am. 57. |
| A200 | God of the upper world. |
| A433.3 | God of the vine. Greek: Grote I 239 (Dionysus). |
| A139.8.4 | God of the wind in shape of kite. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 121. |
| A310 | God of the world of the dead. *Meyer "Der irische Totengott und die Toteninsel" Stzb. d. preussischen Akad. d. Wissenschaften XXXII 537.—Greek: Fox 233 (Hades); Icel.: De la Saussaye 227 (Odin), Boberg; Irish myth: Cross; Siberian: Holmberg Siberian 486; Egyptian: Müller 97 (Osiris); Hindu: Keith 159; India: *Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 201f.—Jicarilla Apache: Alexander N. Am. 175, Goddard PaAM VIII 194 n. 1; Aztec: Alexander Lat. Am. 77, 80; Huichol: ibid. 122; Maya: ibid. 139. |
| A457 | God of thieves. Tahiti, Mangaia, Rarotonga, Maori: Beckwith Myth 447; Easter Is.: Métraux Ethnology 310. |
| A284 | God of thunder. *Harris Boanerges 13ff., 20; Montelius FL XXI (1909) 60.—Icel.: De la Saussaye 236 (Thor); Lithuanian: Gray 319, Balys "Der Donner im lithauischen Volksglauben" Tautosakos Darbai III (1937) 149—238; Finno-Ugric: Holmberg Finno-Ugric 227; Estonian: Eisen Estnische Mythologie 156ff.; Siberian: Holmberg Siberian 443; Armenian: Ananikian 11; Chinese: Werner 198, 201; Greek: Fox 159 (Zeus); Egyptian: Müller 103 (Seth); Hindu: Keith 37 (Parjanya).—Maori: Beckwith Myth 250; S. Am. Indian (Chiriguano): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 172; American Indian: Alexander N. Am. 287 n. 32. |
| A459 | God of trades and professions—miscellaneous. |
| A450 | God of trades and professions. |
| A491 | God of travelers. Greek: Fox 195; Chinese: Ferguson 82; Tahiti: Beckwith Myth 221. |
| A435 | God of trees and forests. Greek: Fox 267 (Pan); Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 283, II 253; Jewish: Neuman.—Maori: Dixon 32. |
| A430 | God of vegetation. **Siecke Der Vegetationsgott.—Irish myth: Cross; Persian: Carnoy 260; Chinese: Graham.—Aztec: Alexander Lat. Am. 76. |
| A485 | God of war. *H. Lommel Der arische Kriegsgott (Frankfurt a. M. 1939). —Irish myth: Cross; Greek: Fox 189; Norse: MacCulloch Eddic 40, 55 (Odin), 98 (Tyr); Armenian: Ananikian 42; Hindu: Penzer VII 137, VIII 180; Chinese: Ferguson 95; Babylonian: Spence 106ff.; Jewish: Neuman.—Aztec: Alexander Lat. Am. 58; Maya: ibid. 139.—Tahiti: Henry 120; Maori: Clark 14; Marquesas: Handy 110; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 15. |
| A420 | God of water. Irish myth: Cross; Icel.: MacCulloch Eddic 167; Babylonian: Spence 76, 111ff.; Persian: Carnoy 260; India: Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Werner 217, 222; Finno-Ugric: Holmberg Die Wassergottheiten der finno-ugrischen Völker (MSFO XXXII); Gaster Thespis 123.—S. Am. Indian (Toba): Métraux MAFLS XL 52; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 541. |
| J451.3 | God of wealth in bad company. Heracles on his arrival in heaven fails to greet Plutus, the god of wealth: he has seen him in too bad company. Wienert FFC LVI 76 (ET 418), 120 (ST 295); Halm Aesop No 160. |
| A473 | God of wealth. Irish myth: Cross; Greek: Roscher III 2572 s.v. "Plutos"; Icel.: Herrmann Nordische Mythologie 204; Hindu: Penzer X 163 s.v. "God of Wealth", X 205 s.v. "Kuvera"; Chinese: Werner 170, Eberhard FFC CXX 176, 196. |
| A282.1 | God of whirlwind. Typhon. He is represented as having serpents' heads on his shoulders, as having a voice like the sound of many beasts and eyes which flash fire.—Greek: Fox 9. |
| A443.1 | God of wild beasts. |
| A443.2 | God of wild fowls. |
| A461 | God of wisdom. Irish myth: Cross; Norse: Herrmann Nordische Mythologie 320 (Odin); Greek: Grote I 10 (Apollo); Babylonian: Spence 184ff. |
| A1335.11 | God of world of the dead demands that men die so he will have subjects. (Cf. A487) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A474.1 | God of youth. Irish myth: Cross. |
| D1711.6 | God or demigod as magician. |
| A459.1 | God or goddess of skiing (or snow-shoes). Icel.: MacCulloch Eddic 105 (Skadi), 156 (Ullr), Boberg. |
| A176 | God ordains ceremonies and regulations. Jewish: *Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 40. |
| A151.9 | God originally resident among men. Jewish: Neuman. |
| K1094.1 | God persuades hero to substitute a false bride for his father; this results in a fight where the son kills the father. Icelandic: Boberg. |
| A185.16 | God pities mortal. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A432.0.1 | God plants fields. *Dh I 192ff. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A179.9 | God plays with leviathan. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A185.7 | God prepares food for mortal. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A161.4 | God presides over all male spirits. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 13. |
| A182.3.4.2 | God promises mortal prosperity for man and offspring. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A1113 | God promises never again to destroy world by water. Jewish: Neuman. |
| L415 | God punishes David for his pride in the number of his subjects. An angel is sent to kill his people. Desists only when David repents. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| A1335.15 | God punishes man by killing his child: origin of death. Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 187. |
| J225.0.2 | God punishes many men because of one sinner, like a man who kills hive of bees for stinging of one. Irish myth: Cross. |
| Q211.9.1 | God punishes murder of brother-in-law by having murderer's male heirs die. (Cf. Q558.) Heptameron No. 40. |
| A185.13 | God puts mortal to test. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A162.5 | God reborn of human woman to avenge self on giant. (cf. A179.5.). India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A182.3.2 | God rebukes mortal. Jewish: Neuman. |
| H45.1 | God recognized by his supernatural powers. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| A175 | God reduces the elements to order. Greek: Fox 9; Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: *Neuman.—Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 20ff. |
| Q553.3.1 | God refuses king a son on account of his many wars. (Cf. Q305.) Chinese: Werner 256. |
| E611.5.1 | God reincarnated as cat. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E651 | God reincarnated as dwarf. Hindu: Keith 121 (Vishnu). |
| E652 | God reincarnated as monster. India: Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 792, 934; Chinese: Werner 207. |
| A185.12.2 | God removes mortal's soul. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A137.17 | God represented as among seven sheaths of fire. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A137.12 | God represented as bridegroom. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A137.10 | God represented as king, world as his kingdom. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A137.16 | God represented as meteor. (cf. A124). Tahiti: Beckwith Myth 113. |
| A137.13 | God represented as priest. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A137.11 | God represented in cloud. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A137.15 | God represented on high throne surrounded by angels. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A137.14.1.1 | God represented with arrow of flames. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A137.14.1 | God represented with bow of fire. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A137.14.3 | God represented with clouds as shield. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A137.14.4 | God represented with lightning flashes as sword. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A137.14.2 | God represented with spears as torches. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A137.14 | God represented with weapon. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A185.2.1 | God rescues sleeping man from attack. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A185.12.1 | God resuscitates man. Jewish: Neuman; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 188 No. 128. |
| A182 | God reveals himself to mortals. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| A182.1 | God reveals secrets (mysteries) to mortals. Jewish: Neuman. |
| Q211.0.1 | God revenges murder after thirty years. *Wesselski Märchen 200; *BP II 535 n. 1. |
| A185.11 | God rewards mortal for pious act. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A136.1.3 | God rides a bull. Hindu: Keith 111; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| A136.1.4 | God rides bird. Panchatantra (tr. Ryder) 94ff. (Vishnu on Garuda); Penzer Ocean X 159 s.v. Garuda; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| A136.1.5 | God rides flying elephant. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A136.1.4.1 | God rides swan. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A171.1.1 | God rides through air in chariot. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A171.1 | God rides through air on wind-swift horse. Icel.: MacCulloch Eddic 43. |
| A136.1 | God rides unusual animal. |
| A136.1.2 | God rides unusual horse. |
| A1335.13 | God sends centipede down to introduce death into the world through its poisoned sting. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A2012.3 | God sends stinging bees to punish men. Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 187. |
| A181 | God serves as menial on earth. Greek: *Frazer Apollodorus II 20 n. 1, Grote I 36, 53, 108; Irish: MacCulloch Celtic 142; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 962; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| A182.3.0.5 | God speaks from mountain. Jewish: Neuman. |
| V510.1 | God speaks in vision to devotee. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| A182.3.0.1 | God speaks to Moses from bush. Jewish: Neuman; Moreno Esdras. |
| A182.3.0.2 | God speaks to saint in prison. Rüttgers Der Heiligen Leben (Leipzig, 1921) 103. |
| A665.0.1 | God stabilizes the sky. Tahiti: Henry 180. |
| A189.2 | God summoned by weeping. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A175.1 | God supplies reproductive energy to all things. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 20, 32. |
| M376 | God swallows his pregnant wife to prevent birth of son whom he fears. Greek: *Frazer Apollodorus I 24 n. 1. |
| F911.1.1 | God swallows his wife and incorporates her into his own being. (Cf. F1034.2.) Greek: Fox 156, 170, Grote I 9f. |
| A132.0.1.1 | God takes form successively of ants, scorpion, and cobra. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A1403 | God teaches people to work. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3057, Balys Legends Nos. 110f. |
| A2215.6 | God throws diver's feet after him; hence his feet reach backward. (Cf. A2371.2.9.) Dh III 46.—Finnish: Aarne FFC VIII 18 No. 103. |
| K445.1 | God to reveal self to those of legitimate birth. All afraid to admit not seeing God. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D42.1 | God transformed to giant with three heads and six arms. Chinese: Werner 236. |
| V123.1 | God under compulsion: suppliant threatens to mutilate (crush) holy image if his wish is not fulfilled. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A123.5 | God unusual as to arms. |
| A123.7 | God unusual as to color. |
| A123.3 | God unusual as to eyes. |
| A123.2 | God unusual as to face. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A123.6 | God unusual at to legs (feet). |
| K1578 | God Vishnu in shape of nephew scares and torments his aunt's lover. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F32 | God visits earth. Jewish: *Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 1003; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 3; Africa (Fang): Einstein 94, Trilles 137, (Ila [Rhodesia]): Smith and Dale II 348. |
| A185.17 | God visits sick mortal. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 1116. |
| A446.1.1 | God whose shadow on earth is a lizard. Tahiti: Beckwith Myth 360. |
| A137.1.1 | God with axe. Irish myth: Cross. |
| A124.1 | God with blazing eye. Hindu: Penzer VI 31 n. 1; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| A123.1.5 | God with body of caterpillars. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 30. |
| A123.1.4 | God with body of earthquake (whirlwind, etc.). Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 30. |
| A123.1.6 | God with body of stream of blood. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 30. |
| A137.2 | God with club. Irish myth: Cross. |
| A123.4.1.3 | God with eight heads. Tahiti: Beckwith Myth 209. |
| A131.2 | God with elephant's face. Hindu: Penzer II 99ff., 125 n. 1, 147 n. 1, 170, III 155 n. 2, V 196, VII 131, IX 1. |
| A128.2.1 | God with Evil Eye. Irish myth: Cross. |
| A123.2.1.4 | God with five faces. Jewish: Neuman. |
| A123.3.2 | God with flashing eyes. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 30; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 32. |
| E251.4.4 | God with form and characteristics of vampire. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A123.2.1.3 | God with four faces. Greek: Roscher "Ianus"; Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A131.5 | God with goat-feet. Greek: Fox 267 (Pan). |
| A125.3 | God with gold teeth. Icel.: MacCulloch Eddic 153 (Heimdall). |
| A123.1.3 | God with good looking and ugly bodies. Marquesas: Handy 124. |
| A137.1 | God with hammer. Irish myth: Cross; Icel.: Boberg; Gaster Thespis 135, 363. |
| A123.4.2 | God with head of stone. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 88. |
| A123.3.1.2 | God with hundred eyes. Irish myth: Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A137.18 | God with long white beard and white moustache. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A124.0.1 | God with luminous countenance. Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: Neuman. |
| A123.5.1 | God with many arms. Siva has ten arms.—Hindu: Keith 110; Chinese: Werner 144, 324.—Cf. Greek: Roscher "Briareos"; India: *Thompson-Balys; Irish Myth: Cross. |
| A123.3.1 | God with many eyes. *Krappe Balor 19ff. (Argos); Usener IV 223.—Hindu: Penzer II 46 n. 4, VIII 75, 116, IX 19; Keith 110, 134; Chinese: Werner 144. |
| A123.2.1 | God with many faces. |
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