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Fundamental generic unit of narrative structure
In structuralism-influenced studies of mythology, a mytheme is a fundamental generic unit of narrative structure (typically involving a relationship between
Mytheme
Proto-Indo-European mytheme
chariots. Three Indo-European traditions (Greek, Indic and Baltic) attest the mytheme of equestrian twins, all associated with the dawn or the sun's daughter
Divine_twins
Ancient Egyptian symbol of protection, royal power and good health
surrounding the Eye of Horus and the Eye of Ra are based around the same mytheme, or core element of a myth, and that "rather than postulating a single
Eye_of_Horus
Giant turtle supporting or containing the world
Turtle, also called the Cosmic Turtle or the World-Bearing Turtle, is a mytheme of a giant turtle (or tortoise) supporting or containing the world. It
World_Turtle
Prophetic god of bodies of water in Greek mythology
or the liquid quality of water. He can foretell the future, but, in a mytheme familiar to several cultures, will change his shape to avoid doing so;
Proteus
Blind prophet of Apollo
into a man." The latter version, readable as a doublet of the Actaeon mytheme, was preferred by the English poets Tennyson and even Swinburne.[citation
Tiresias
Pattern in storytelling
used more generally, as a term for a mythological archetype or a supposed mytheme that re-occurs throughout the world's cultures. Omry Ronen referred to
Hero's_journey
Servant of the sea god Yam
mythologies of the Ancient Near East are classical examples of the Chaoskampf mytheme, also reflected in Zeus' slaying of Typhon in Greek mythology, Thor's struggle
Lotan
Ancient Greek hero and founder of Mycenae
her in a room atop a bronze tower in the courtyard of his palace: This mytheme is also connected to Ares, Oenopion, Eurystheus, and others. Zeus came
Perseus
Mythological prince of Troy
bed she shared with Tithonus in order to give her light to mankind. The mytheme of the goddess' mortal lover is an archaic one; when a role for Zeus was
Tithonus
Journey into the underworld in literature
living world where he performed this. The trip to the underworld is a mytheme of comparative mythology found in a diverse number of religions from around
Katabasis
Biblical figure responsible for Jesus's burial
it miraculously took root and blossomed as the "Glastonbury Thorn". The mytheme of the staff that Joseph of Arimathea set in the ground at Glastonbury
Joseph_of_Arimathea
Mytheme in various mythologies
The World Mill (also "heavenly mill", "cosmic mill" and variants) is a mytheme suggested as recurring in Indo-European and other mythologies. It involves
World_Mill
Type of traditional narrative
mythological objects List of mythology books and sources Magic and mythology Mytheme Mythopoeia, artificially constructed mythology, mainly for the purpose
Myth
Concept in Hindu philosophy
static. During the Vedic period, the Purusha concept was one of several mythemes offered for the creation of the universe. Purusa, in the Rigveda, was described
Purusha
Ancient Greek hero
vi. Euripides' tragedies Stheneboia and Bellerophontes are lost. This mytheme is most familiar in the Biblical narrative of Joseph and Potiphar's wife
Bellerophon
Archetype in mythology
stones from the bed of the sun to give light and power to his people. Some mythemes and cultural belief systems that are explored through myths about kings
Mythological_king
Ancient Greek goddess of love
interpretations and claims the story of a birth from the foam as an Indo-European mytheme. Similarly, Krzysztof Tomasz Witczak proposes an Indo-European compound
Aphrodite
French anthropologist and ethnologist (1908–2009)
bundled together. These are mythemes. What Lévi-Strauss believed he had discovered when he examined the relations between mythemes was that a myth consists
Claude_Lévi-Strauss
Roman mythology draws from the mythology of the Italic peoples and shares mythemes with Proto-Indo-European mythology. The Romans usually treated their traditional
Roman_mythology
Trojan hero in Greco-Roman mythology
individual (or family) spared from general destruction, following the mytheme of Utnapishtim, Baucis and Philemon, Noah, and Lot. Pseudo-Apollodorus
Aeneas
Greek mythical character
times is not directly comparable to Ishtar of the many lovers, but the mytheme of Artemis shooting Orion, was linked to her punishment of Actaeon by T
Actaeon
Topics referred to by the same term
Holy Mountain may refer to: the mytheme or archetype of the world mountain mountains considered sacred mountains in Abrahamic tradition Mount Sinai, by
Holy_Mountain
Ruler of the Titans in Greek mythology
created] the loftiness of the sky. This may point to an older Indo-European mytheme reconstructed as *(s)kert wersmn diwos "by means of a cut he created the
Cronus
Daughter of Minos in Greek mythology
was a weaving goddess, like Arachne, and support this theory with the mytheme of the Hanged Nymph (see weaving in mythology).[citation needed] Karl Kerenyi
Ariadne
2011 film by George Nolfi
and predestination, and elements from the descent to the underworld (a mytheme dating back at least to the story of Eurydice and Orpheus). Cathleen Falsani
The_Adjustment_Bureau
Roman deity
founding hero whose body parts are buried in the soil – is a recognized mytheme that arises when such a split takes place in a culture's mythology (see
Quirinus
Legendary bird in Middle Eastern mythology
between the Indian solar bird Garuda and the chthonic serpent Nāga. The mytheme of Garuda carrying off an elephant that was battling a crocodile appears
Roc_(mythology)
Divine twins in Lithuanian mythology
Dioscuri Castor and Pollux, they are reflexes of a common Indo-European mytheme, the Divine Twins. Ašvieniai are represented as pulling the carriage of
Ašvieniai
Character of Slovenian mythology
between two tribes of sorcerers over the fate of the harvest is a common mytheme among peoples of the northern Adriatic regardless of their ethnicity. A
Krsnik_(vampire_hunter)
King of Tiryns in Greek mythology
Sthenelus had banished Amphitryon for accidentally killing (a familiar mytheme) the eldest son in the family (Electryon). When, shortly before his son
Eurystheus
concepts foreshadowing evolutionary ideas in their scriptures, such as the mytheme of Dashavatara, where the incarnations of Vishnu starts with a fish. According
Hindu_views_on_evolution
Method of analyzing mythology
like language, can be broken down into constituents (which he called "mythemes" in the case of mythology). Each constituent could then be addressed separately
Structuralist theory of mythology
Structuralist_theory_of_mythology
Symbolic narrative of how the world began
east to the North American continent. However, there are examples of this mytheme found well outside of this boreal distribution pattern, for example the
Creation_myth
David Gordon (2017). "Variations on the Indo-European 'Fire and Water' Mytheme in Three Alchemical Accounts". Journal of the American Oriental Society
Proto-Indo-European_mythology
Ancient Greek mythical character
Endymion was said to have a relationship with the moon as she passed by. The mytheme of Endymion being not dead but endlessly asleep, which was proverbial (the
Endymion_(mythology)
Mythological creatures that would reach immense height
and large (over 1,000 kg (2,200 lb)). Megafauna often form one of the mythemes of a story. The narrative may revolve around a real animal or a primordial
List of megafauna in mythology and folklore
List_of_megafauna_in_mythology_and_folklore
Original inhabitants of Sicily
mythographers only when he attempted to waylay Leto near Delphi. If such a mytheme is set into action as ritual, it is usual to see a pair of sacrificial
Sicels
Concept in continental philosophy
which is why she/it can become the subject of neither a philosopheme nor mytheme. In short, the khôra is tout autre [fully other], very. If, as one contributor
Khôra
Type of dragon described in mythology
Vedic Vritra and Surasa, and the Norse Jörmungandr, etc. The Drachenkampf mytheme, the chief god in the role of the hero slaying a sea serpent, is widespread
Sea_serpent
Ancient Greek tragedy by Aeschylus
defy this edict. The seven attackers and defenders in the play are: The mytheme of the "outlandish" and "savage" Seven who threatened the city has traditionally
Seven_Against_Thebes_(play)
Christian hermit
Giles Catholic Parish". 2016-02-11. Retrieved 2023-10-29. Compare the mytheme of the doe nurturing Heracles' son Telephus. Roberts, Holly Harlayne (2004-09-01)
Saint_Giles
Poem by Hesiod
the Kingship in Heaven text first presented in 1946, with its castration mytheme, offers in the figure of Kumarbi an Anatolian parallel to Hesiod's Uranus–Cronus
Theogony
Figure in Native American mythology
Karl Taube in 1983 tentatively connected the South Western "Spider Woman" mytheme with the pre-Columbian Teotihuacan "Great Goddess" known from pictorial
Spider_Grandmother
Giants from Greek mythology
Edith (1942). Mythology. New York: Grand Central Publishing. p. 144. This mytheme, of the brothers' mutual murder, features in the myth of the mutual killings
Aloadae
Violent feminine counterpart of Ra in Ancient Egyptian mythology
argues that the myths surrounding the two eyes are based around the same mytheme, or core element of a myth, and that "rather than postulating a single
Eye_of_Ra
Sun) through the sky. Like the Greek Dioscuri Castor and Pollux, it is a mytheme of the Divine twins common to the Indo-European mythology. Two well-accepted
Lithuanian_mythology
God in Greek mythology
versions"; though efforts to do so have been made, "we cannot find a single mytheme which would occur invariably in all the accounts and could thus create
Pluto_(mythology)
Nymph in Greek mythology
indigenous name after all: the introduction of viticulture provides many mythemes for the Hellenes. Hyginus, Fabulae 52 Apollodorus, The Library with an
Aegina_(mythology)
Cognitive capacity of horses
Marchegai d'Aiol. Italian ethnologist Angelo De Gubernatis identifies a mytheme— the transformation of a fool into an intelligent and wise man—as parallel
Equine_intelligence
Basic unit of narrative structure
where Nn dominates immediately Nn-1 (Wittmann 1995).[incomprehensible] Mytheme Narratology Narrative Narrative structure In this author's views, narremes
Narreme
Fringe theory claiming that Jesus did not exist
sayings, most Christ myth proponents have relied on comparisons of Christian mythemes with contemporary religious traditions, emphasizing the mythological nature
Christ_myth_theory
Physical immortality free of ageing
specific eternal youth is a recurrent theme in Greek and Roman mythology. The mytheme of requesting the boon of immortality from a god, but forgetting to ask
Eternal_youth
Stock character
man to commune with Nature, far from the artifice of civilisation. The mytheme of the savage was a helpful justification for colonization by Europeans
Noble_savage
Ancient Roman pastoral deity
Pales deities, or at least their name, are related to similarly named mythemes of divine twins elsewhere in Proto-Indo-European mythology. He cites the
Pales
Religious motif in which a deity dies and is resurrected
mischaracterized by other scholars including Frazer himself in her view. Dumuzid Mytheme Ouroboros Pandeism Apotheosis Katabasis Death or departure of the gods
Dying-and-rising_god
Archaeogenetic name for an ancestral genetic component
stretched from the Pontic–Caspian steppe to the American continent. The mytheme of the dog guarding the Otherworld possibly stems from an older Ancient
Ancient_North_Eurasian
Method of biological systematics in evolutionary biology
protoversion of many myths. Mythological phylogenies constructed with mythemes clearly support low horizontal transmissions (borrowings), historical (sometimes
Cladistics
Pair of Sicilian chthonic deities
Indo-European mytheme of the divine twins. They argue that the pair fit some of the common traits that scholar Donald J. Ward ascribed to the mytheme, such as
Palici
Type of furniture
hero. Finally, Zeus had to intervene in order to end this quarrel. The mytheme of Heracles contesting with Apollo for the tripod appears in vase-paintings
Sacrificial_tripod
Beliefs of the Scythian cultures
connected to this identification of the Snake-Legged Goddess with Demeter. The mytheme of the Divine twins, which appears across several Indo-European religions
Scythian_religion
Dutch folk tale
older and contains elements going back to Carolingian times. Many of its mythemes range back to Germanic pre-Christian legends.[citation needed] The song's
Heer_Halewijn
Mythological king of the Edoni in Thrace
Edward. The Handbook of Classical Mythology. Meridian, 1970, pg. 350. The mytheme of the resistance to Dionysus' arrival and the god's retaliation is repeated
Lycurgus_(son_of_Dryas)
Mythical female creature
the Haida, the Tlingit and the Natchez. Based on the cladistics of the mythemes, he obtained statistical evidence supporting Berezkin's proposal that the
Swan_maiden
Ancient city-state and archaeological area in Cyprus
Britannica. Vol. 1 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 783. The mytheme of bees in the carcase, familiar from the legend of Samson ( Judges 14:8
Amathus
Story in ancient Egyptian mythology
JSTOR 3856116. Goebs, Katja (2002). "A Functional Approach to Egyptian Myth and Mythemes". Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religions. 2 (1): 27–59. doi:10.1163/156921202762733879
Osiris_myth
Coin placed in or on the mouth of the dead
perhaps representing the oarsmen, who require a ransom for release. The mytheme of the passage to the afterlife as a voyage or crossing is not unique to
Charon's_obol
Abstract object analyzed in linguistics
Meme (acts as a unit for carrying cultural ideas, symbols, or practices) Mytheme (in mythology, basic narratological/mythological unit) Narreme (in narratology
Emic_and_etic_units
Mythical daughter of King Eurytus of Oechalia
Cambridge, Massachusetts. Harvard University Press. 1912. Hippolytus mytheme: Iole, daughter of the king of Oechalia, was beloved by Heracles, sacked
Iole
Proto-Indo-European mythological figure
('Black'), which, to Lincoln, corresponded respectively to life and death. The mytheme possibly stems from an older Ancient North Eurasian belief, as evidenced
*Ḱérberos
People from (or residents of) Sicily
Witczak" suggests, the Palici may derive from the old Proto-Indo-European mytheme of the divine twins. Mount Etna is named after the mythological Sicilian
Sicilians
regional cult of the god of a city-state. There were also super-regional mythemes and deities, such as the God Tammuz and the descent to the underworld.
Religions of the ancient Near East
Religions_of_the_ancient_Near_East
Type of animal sacrifice
fundamentally the same myth as that of the divine twin horsemen by the mytheme of a "mare-suckled" hero from Greek and medieval Serbian evidence, or mythical
Horse_sacrifice
Reconstructed culture of Proto-Indo-Europeans
Indo-European cultures (Greek Cerberus, Indic Śārvara, Norse Garmr). The mytheme possibly stems from an older Ancient North Eurasian belief, as evidenced
Proto-Indo-European_society
Mythical king of Egypt
mainland Greece aside from Athens; for another comic episode, compare the mytheme of Heracles and the Cercopes. Livingstone 2001:87. Niall Livingstone surveys
Busiris_(king_of_Egypt)
Prehistoric belief system
language, and the uses literate Greeks later made of surviving Cretan mythemes, after centuries of purely oral transmission, have transformed the meager
Minoan_religion
1969 book on archaeoastronomy and mythology
the steep attrition of the ages". In particular, the book centers on the mytheme of a heavenly mill which rotates around the celestial pole and is associated
Hamlet's_Mill
Coyote as ancestor and trickster compare to Central and Northern California mythemes of Yokuts mythology, Ohlone mythology and Pomo mythology. The myths of
Miwok_mythology
Book by David Lewis-Williams
Lévi-Strauss, they discuss Lévi-Strauss's ideas of neurologically based "mythemes" that provided the building blocks for myths; although rejecting his structuralism
Inside_the_Neolithic_Mind
Body of myths associated with Judaism
myth" about the good god battling the demon of chaos; one example of this mytheme is the Babylonian Enûma Eliš. A lesser known example is the very fragmentary
Jewish_mythology
substance, matter") is – analogous to terms such as morpheme, phoneme or mytheme – a "smallest plot-carrying unit of a narrative material". The term was
Hyleme
Archetypical concept common to many legends, fairy tales, and chivalric romances
study of the antiquity and diffusion of the snake- or dragon-battling mytheme in different cultural traditions. Scholarship suggests a connection between
Princess_and_dragon
and is about a prototype of a bluebeard. This song contains elements mythemes of Germanic legend, notably in "a magic song" within a song, that compares
Folklore_of_the_Low_Countries
Hindu festival dedicated to Kalki
Bassuk, Daniel E. (ed.), "Epilogue: Criteria for Avatarhood Based on Mythemes", Incarnation in Hinduism and Christianity: The Myth of the God-Man, London:
Kalki_Jayanti
Amphion and Zethus. They were exposed on Mount Cithaeron, but, in a familiar mytheme, were found and brought up by a shepherd. Unable to retrieve his daughter
Epopeus_of_Sicyon
Spanish literary critic
“playing with a marked deck”). Any myth is structured on a grid of mythemes (any mytheme has a transcendent valence). Myth criticism requires the use of
José_Manuel_Losada
Shamanic practice
both ways (cf. dying-and-rising deity). The cross-culturally recurrent mytheme of death-dismemberment-rebirth reflect the death of one identity and the
Soul_flight
Series of folktales about a calumniated wife and her wonder children
suggests it is a "reinterpretation" of a "well-documented" Indo-European mytheme of a female entity or goddess of sovereignty. In a later article, Delpech
The Three Golden Children (folklore)
The_Three_Golden_Children_(folklore)
Meditation practices in Jainism
yet, the Jain-tradition solved this problem of non-accessibility by the mytheme of Mahavideha, a non-earthly realm were this knowledge is preserved, and
Jain_meditation
Mythological character in Cambodia
of Pursat is deemed to be the most famous neak ta in the country. The mytheme of Khleang Moeung is locally materialized in Pursat through a sacred geography
Khleang_Moeung
Christian martyr and saint
tyrannical enemy of the faith and presenting his head to her countrymen. The mythemes are differently configured, but there seem to be similar underlying concerns
Valerie_of_Limoges
Character in Slavic mythology
Valerii Nikitich Demin [ru] commented that the Mistress is a universal mytheme, while the Copper mountain is the specific location: the Gumyoshevsky mine
The Mistress of the Copper Mountain
The_Mistress_of_the_Copper_Mountain
Canadian biblical scholar and journalist (1929–2017)
negative review of The Pagan Christ notes, Harpur grants that the gospel mythemes descend only indirectly from Egyptian prototypes, through the channels
Tom_Harpur
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Girl/Female
Australian, Hebrew
Tamara; Palm Tree
Biblical
agreeable, virtuous
Boy/Male
Latin
Helmeted.
Boy/Male
Chinese
Moral.
Girl/Female
Indian
Victory.
Girl/Female
Hindu
New
Boy/Male
Welsh English
Good-natured.
Girl/Female
Arabic
Neat
Female
English
Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Seònaid, SHONA means "God is gracious."
Boy/Male
American, Australian, British, English, French, Latin
Fifth; Surname; Variant of Quentin Fifth
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