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   From: eciton@curiousta/xyz/xonomy.net   
      
   On 6/12/19 9:55 PM, David Dalton wrote:   
   > Some examples of thorns in religion, mythology, folklore and history that I   
   > know of are:   
   >   
   > 1. the thorn bush of Moses   
   > 2. the crown of thorns of Jesus (plus the thorns around the heart of Jesus in   
   > the old Catholic Sacred Heart of Jesus picture)   
   > 3. the piercing of hands and feet mentioned in the Old Testament   
   > 4. the self-sacrifice of Quetzalcoatl on thorns   
   > 5. the hedge of thorns that the hero has to burst through in the original   
   > Sleeping Beauty story   
   > 6. the wall of thorns in the Pied Piper story   
   > 7. the “dragon-demon’s thorns” in a poem by Tsangyang Gyatso, the sixth   
   > Dalai Lama   
   >   
   > Do you know of any other instances?   
   >   
   > I suspect that the spear and tree in Havamal 138 and the boar’s tusks that   
   > wounded Adonis may also have been thorns.   
      
   I know thorns have figured as one of the obstacles in several instances   
   of the obstacle flight motif, but I don't remember which particular   
   myths.  I believe one is from the Kojiki, but I'm far from sure.   
      
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