Yet Janda ( 2010 ) considers the connection with " foam " genuine, identifying the myth of Aphrodite rising out of the waters after Cronus defeats Uranus as a mytheme of Proto-Indo-European age.

The decipherment of Hittite mythical texts, notably the Kingship in Heaven text first presented in 1946, with its castration mytheme, offers in the figure of Kumarbi an Anatolian parallel to Hesiod's Uranus-Cronus conflict.

Some scholars think, due to her thread-spinning and winding associations, that she was a weaving goddess such as Arachne, and they support the assertion with the mytheme of the Hanged Nymph ( see weaving in mythology ).

The mytheme of Heracles contesting with Apollo for the tripod appears in vase-paintings older than the oldest written literature.

In the study of mythology, a mytheme is the essential kernel of a myth — an irreducible, unchanging element, a minimal unit that is always found shared with other, related mythemes and reassembled in various ways —" bundled " was Claude Lévi-Strauss's image — or linked in more complicated relationships, like a molecule in a compound.

Lev Manovich also uses the terms seme and mytheme in his book, The Language of New Media to describe aspects of culture that computer images enter into dialog with.

The unitary mytheme, by contrast, is the equivalent in myth of the phonemes, morphemes, and sememes into which structural linguistics divides language, the smallest possible units of meaning within a language system.

The mytheme of the staff that Joseph of Arimathea set in the ground at Glastonbury, which broke into leaf and flower as the Glastonbury Thorn is a common miracle in hagiography.

Heracles ' human stepfather Amphitryon was also a grandson of Perseus, and since Amphitryon's father ( Alcaeus ) was older than Eurystheus ' father ( Sthenelus ), he might have received the kingdom, but Sthenelus had banished Amphitryon for accidentally killing ( a familiar mytheme ) the eldest son in the family ( Electryon ).

He can foretell the future, but, in a mytheme familiar to several cultures, will change his shape to avoid having to ; he will answer only to someone who is capable of capturing him.

Alternatively, the derivation pēnē and lepō ( λέπω ), " peel ", because of the shroud-unweaving mytheme, has been suggested.

The mytheme of Garuda carrying off an elephant that was battling a Crocodile appears in two Sanskrit epics, the Mahabharata ( I. 1353 ) and the Ramayana ( III. 39 ).

They were exposed on Mount Cithaeron, but, in a familiar mytheme, were found and brought up by a shepherd.

In the catabasis mytheme, heroes — such as Heracles, Orpheus, Aeneas, Dante, Dionysus and Psyche — journey to the underworld and return, still alive, conveyed by the boat of Charon.

Hippolytus mytheme: Iole, daughter of the king of Oechalia, was beloved by Heracles, sacked her city, killed her family, and took her away by force as his concubine.

For the mytheme of a woman taking revenge on the man who does not answer her feelings by falsely accusing him of sexual abuse, see also Phaedra, Stheneboea, Tenes, Phoenix and Eunostus.

Robert Graves suggested that Aphrodite had been substituted for Artemis in this retelling of the mytheme of the eponymous Erymanthus.

Danaë was childless and to keep her so, he imprisoned her in a bronze chamber open to the sky in the courtyard of his palace: This mytheme is also connected to Ares, Oenopion, Eurystheus, etc.

The version of the Golden Legend did not relate how Erasmus fled to Mount Lebanon and survived on what ravens brought him to eat, an interesting pre-Christian mytheme.

If such a mytheme is set into action as ritual, it is usual to see a pair of sacrificial children laid in the earth to encourage the green growth.

The mytheme of Endymion being not dead but endlessly asleep, which was proverbial ( the proverb-Endymionis somnum dormire, " to sleep the sleep of Endymion ") ensured that scenes of Endymion and Selene were popular subjects for sculpted sarcophagi in Late Antiquity, when after-death existence began to be a heightened concern.

This idea is somewhat disputed by Roman Jakobson, who takes the mytheme to be a concept or phoneme which is without significance in itself but whose significance might be shown by sociological analysis.

The most famous tale of Eris recounts her initiating the Trojan War by causing the Judgement of Paris.

This is one of the Judgement of Paris # Gallery | many works depicting the event.

This is a section from The Golden Ass by Apuleius, depicting a religious theatrical reenactment of Paris ' Judgement:

The Judgement of Paris, Capodimonte porcelain, Capitoline Museums, Rome

File: The Judgement of Paris. jpg | Hendrick van Balen the Elder, c. 1599

File: The Judgement of Paris by Jean Baptiste Regnault. jpg | Jean-Baptiste Regnault, c. 1820

File: The Judgement of Paris by Adriaen van der Werff. jpg | Adriaen van der Werff, c. 1712

File: Mirror Judgement of Paris Louvre Bj1734. jpg | An Etruscan bronze mirrorback, 4th-3rd century BCE ( Louvre )

* 1976 – The Judgement of Paris takes place in France, launching California as a worldwide force in the production of quality wine.

A divinatory dream by Hecuba that the Judgement of Paris would lead to the destruction of Troy

The Golden Apple refers to the Golden apple of discord, from the Greek myth of the Judgement of Paris.

During the feast, Eris produced the Apple of Discord, which started the quarrel that led to the Judgement of Paris and eventually to the Trojan War.

The most famous original prints to result from the collaboration were Lucretia, the Judgement of Paris and The Massacre of the Innocents ( of which two virtually identical versions were engraved ).

File: Urteil des Paris. jpg | Judgement of Paris, still influencing Manet, who used the seated group in his most famous work.

D ' Urville the classicist recognized the Venus of the Judgement of Paris.

Judgement of Paris, porcelain, Capitoline Museums, Rome

* ' The Judgement of Paris ' by William Etty at the Lady Lever Art Gallery

Oenone holding pan pipes, Paris ( mythology ) | Paris and Eros ( mythology ) | Eros – a detail from a sarcophagus with the Judgement of Paris, Roman, Hadrian ic period ( Palazzo Altemps, Rome )

She was often depicted in the Judgement of Paris, called Elcsntre ( Alexander, his alternative name in Greek ) in Etruscan, one of the most popular Greek myths in Etruria.

By applying this methodology Graves decoded a woodcut of The Judgement of Paris as depicting a singular Triple Goddess rather than the traditional Hera, Athena and Aphrodite of the narrative the image illustrates.

Judgement of Paris | The Judgement of Paris-an Etruscan bronze-handled mirror of the fourth or third century BC that relates the often misunderstood myth as interpreted by Frazer, showing the three goddesses giving their apple or pomegranate to the new king who must kill the old king-Campana Collection, Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities, Sully