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Motif-Index of Folk-Literature
A425. River-god. Greek: Fox 256, *Frazer Pausanias II 527; Egyptian: Müller 45ff.; Russian: Rambaud La Russie épique 216f.; India: *Thompson-Balys; Jewish: Neuman; Chinese: Werner 336, Eberhard FFC CXX 135—141.
D1432. Waters magically pursue man.
A425.0.1. Angel of rivers. Jewish: Neuman.
A425.1. River goddess. Irish myth: Cross; Hindu: Penzer II 189 n. 1; India: *Thompson-Balys.
F424. Water-nymph. N815.0.2.1. Gift of gold bracelet from river goddess.
A425.1.1. Stream is wife of deity. India: Thompson-Balys.
A427. God of springs.
A427.1. Goddess of springs and wells. In Greek myth, the nymphs were regarded as deities of springs. In Babylonian, Ishtar, the goddess of fertility had this function. — Greek: Fox 257; Persian and Babylonian: Carnoy 278.
V134. Sacred (holy) wells.
A430. God of vegetation. **Siecke Der Vegetationsgott. — Irish myth: Cross; Persian: Carnoy 260; Chinese: Graham. — Aztec: Alexander Lat. Am. 76.
F440. Vegetation spirits.
A430.0.1. Angel in charge of vegetation. Jewish: Neuman.
A430.1. Goddess of vegetation. Irish myth: Cross.
A111. Mother of the gods.
A430.1.1. Goddess of splendor of spring. Hindu: Penzer I 112; Japanese: Anesaki 233.
A430.1.2. Goddess of autumn leaves. Japanese: Anesaki 234.
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.
A431.1. Goddess of fertility (cf. A401). Irish myth: Cross; Greek-Roman: Fox 292; Babylonian: Carnoy 278 (Ishtar), Spence 124; Lappish: Reuterskiold De Nordiska Lapparnas Religion 102ff. — Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 185; Icel.: Boberg.
A111. Mother of the gods. A427.1. Goddess of springs and wells. As goddess of fertility. A475.1. Goddess of love.
A431.1.1. In absence of goddess of fertility, no reproduction of life. Wesselski Archiv Orientálni I 304.
A431.1.2. Goddess of fertility of wild forest plants. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 289.
A431.1.3. Goddess causes famine. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 289.
A431.1.4. Goddess of dryness and sterility. Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 203f.
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.
