Comparative mythology corpus

Carrion Bird Denies Revival And Redirects Corpse To Waters

1 appearances across 1 tradition groups.

Evidence

Each row links back to the complete public-domain source text and the structured extraction record.

TraditionSourcePassageConfidenceEvidenceRecord
Finnish/Karelian Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland PREFACE / JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM; lines 7842-8032 medium A raven tells the mother the fragments cannot be revived because eels and whiting have fed on the body and eyes, and says to cast the dead into Tuonela's waters to become a walrus, seal, whale, or porpoise. record