- In structuralism-influenced
studies of mythology, a
mytheme is a
fundamental generic unit of
narrative structure (typically
involving a
relationship between...
- chariots.
Three Indo-European
traditions (Gr****,
Indic and Baltic)
attest the
mytheme of
equestrian twins, all ****ociated with the dawn or the sun's daughter...
- or the
liquid quality of water. He can
foretell the ****ure, but, in a
mytheme familiar to
several cultures, will
change his
shape to
avoid doing so;...
- This has been
taken to
confirm that at
least some
aspects of Charon's
mytheme are
reflected in some Gr**** and
Roman funeral practices, or else the coins...
-
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...
- 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...
- 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...
- or
ideas foreshadowing evolutionary ideas, in scriptures, such as the
mytheme of Dashavatara, the
incarnations of
Vishnu starting with a fish. In India...
- 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...
- 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...
