Motif evidence pages
140,297 motifs, 321,766 tagged passages
Each of the 140,297 indexed motifs has an evidence page listing every tagged passage with its quote, and a link that lands on that passage in the book itself. The intended way in is the descent — the One, its families, their sub-families, then the motifs. But if you would rather begin from the patterns that travel farthest, the widest are below.
The forty most widespread
- Wisdom 27,751 occurrences · 106 traditions
- Death And Rebirth 5,315 occurrences · 106 traditions
- Sacred Exchange 13,559 occurrences · 105 traditions
- Departure 8,305 occurrences · 105 traditions
- Return 5,501 occurrences · 105 traditions
- Divine Judgment 9,578 occurrences · 104 traditions
- Initiation 7,799 occurrences · 104 traditions
- Ascent 4,811 occurrences · 104 traditions
- Resurrection 3,174 occurrences · 104 traditions
- Serpent 4,106 occurrences · 103 traditions
- Sacrifice 10,174 occurrences · 102 traditions
- Culture Hero 3,227 occurrences · 102 traditions
- Duality 5,173 occurrences · 100 traditions
- Sibling Pair 2,212 occurrences · 100 traditions
- Shapeshifter 6,245 occurrences · 99 traditions
- Trickster At The Boundary 4,888 occurrences · 99 traditions
- Royal Legitimacy 11,306 occurrences · 97 traditions
- Seasonal Cycle 4,662 occurrences · 95 traditions
- Sacred Birth 2,970 occurrences · 95 traditions
- Afterlife Journey Map 4,632 occurrences · 94 traditions
- Forbidden Knowledge 1,326 occurrences · 94 traditions
- Mystical Quest 6,112 occurrences · 93 traditions
- Miraculous Child 2,191 occurrences · 91 traditions
- Sacred Marriage 1,712 occurrences · 91 traditions
- Sacred Theft 1,284 occurrences · 90 traditions
- Divine Parent And Holy Child 3,634 occurrences · 86 traditions
- Descent Into The Underworld 1,087 occurrences · 86 traditions
- Sacred Tree Or Axis Mundi 1,063 occurrences · 86 traditions
- Stolen Or Lost Beloved 2,076 occurrences · 83 traditions
- Covenant 1,990 occurrences · 83 traditions
- Chaos 2,037 occurrences · 82 traditions
- Flood And Renewal 972 occurrences · 82 traditions
- Ark Or Preserving Vessel 801 occurrences · 80 traditions
- World Center 1,070 occurrences · 72 traditions
- Divine Beloved 1,890 occurrences · 70 traditions
- Cosmic Mountain 756 occurrences · 70 traditions
- Heroic fighter confronted by many at a ford 328 occurrences · 63 traditions
- Sacred Twins 463 occurrences · 61 traditions
- World-Destroying Fire 586 occurrences · 55 traditions
- Mother Goddess 797 occurrences · 54 traditions