Motif
lone hero overthrows a demon army
lone_hero_overthrows_a_demon_army
A motif of the Divine Warrior and Sacred Combat family, within the sub-family Lone Hero Against Many. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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hindu
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The Ramayan of Valmiki Canto XXI. The Rousing Of Khara. / Canto XXIII. The Omens. / Canto XXIV. The Host In Sight. / Canto XXV. The Battle.; lines 29695-29863 confidence: high
Ráma slays the rest of Dúshaṇ’s five-thousand-member demon crew and sends them to Yáma’s gloomy realm.
The passage repeatedly presents Ráma as a single foot-soldier defeating thousands of fiends and chiefs.
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