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Motif-Index of Folk-Literature
A120.4. Formless gods. Tonga: Beckwith Myth 128.
A121. Stars as deities. H. Gressmann Die hellenistische Gestirn-religion (Leipzig 1925); Gaster Thespis 228f. — Zuñi: Alexander N. Am. 187.
A760. Creation of the stars.
A121.1. Moon as deity (cf. A240). Jewish: Neuman.
A121.2. Sun as deity (cf. A220). Jewish: Neuman; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 217.
A122. God half mortal, half immortal. Hair, skin, flesh, bones and marrow are mortal; mind, voice, breath, eye, and ear are immortal. (Prajāpati). — Hindu: Keith 76; cf. Greek: Grote I 3.
A123. Monstrous gods. Jewish: Neuman.
E652. God reincarnated as monster.
A123.1. God monstrous as to body.
A123.1.1. Three-bodied goddess. Hekate has three bodies standing back to back and looking in three directions. — Greek: Fox 188.
F524.1. Person with three bodies.
A123.1.2. God with two joined bodies. Tahiti: Henry 344.
A123.1.3. God with good looking and ugly bodies. Marquesas: Handy 124.
A123.1.4. God with body of earthquake (whirlwind, etc.). Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 30.
A123.1.5. God with body of caterpillars. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 30.
A123.1.6. God with body of stream of blood. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 30.
A123.1.7. Goddess with three supernatural bodies: fire, cliff, sea. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 496.
A123.2. God unusual as to face. Jewish: Neuman.
A282.0.1.1. Facial features of wind-goddess reversed.
A123.2.1. God with many faces.
A123.2.1.1. God with two faces. *Krappe Balor 7 n. 24; Usener IV 347ff.; *Frazer Ovid II 95ff; India: Thompson-Balys.
A123.2.1.2. God with three faces. *Krappe Balor 8 n. 28. — Chinese: Werner 324.
A123.2.1.3. God with four faces. Greek: Roscher "Ianus"; Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys.
A123.2.1.4. God with five faces. Jewish: Neuman.
A123.2.1.5. God with six faces. Hindu: Penzer I 73 n. 1, II 102.
A123.2.2. God's unusual mouth.
A123.2.2.1. Maggots squirm from mouth of man-eating god. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 506.
A123.2.2.2. Goddess with eight mouths. Tonga: Gifford 168.
A123.3. God unusual as to eyes.
