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I need examples of disobedience in blah blah see post title. I've already got a few collected (Adam & Eve, Jack & the Beanstalk, Pandora, Prometheus, Orpheus, etc.), and I would love if someone could suggest some less obvious ones, or ones that I may have overlooked.

Dian Cecht and Miach, to some degree.

I need examples of disobedience in blah blah see post title. I've already got a few collected (Adam & Eve, Jack & the Beanstalk, Pandora, Prometheus, Orpheus, etc.), and I would love if someone could suggest some less obvious ones, or ones that I may have overlooked.

The big obvious one is the devil saying NON SERVIAM to God, which I guess qualifies as mythology as it is a story that has grown in parallel to the Bible, despite not being in it.

There is an obscure greek myth -mentioned in the Illiad i think - where the gods rebel against Zeus. Thetis brings one of the hecatonchires to defend him and quash the rebellion. (Possibly Im sketchy on the details).

the boy who cried wolf

peter cottentail

Thank you, thank you.

The big obvious one is the devil saying NON SERVIAM to God, which I guess qualifies as mythology as it is a story that has grown in parallel to the Bible, despite not being in it.
Ah yes, classic stuff

"Don't talk to strangers little red riding hood."

It's amazing how this one has morphed, it used to be that there was no wood cutter to chop up the wolf and it was used as a moral lesson to teach young ladies not to trust men (because male + female = sex, which is BAD BAD BAD!). ;)

there are so many
there's an old arabic story my mom used to tell me of noel and how she went with her friends to pick fruit and her mother told her to be back home or go to her friends house before the sun goes down and how she didn't listen and stayed out that night to play in the woods and how the big bad wolf came and got her and told her she was a bad girl for not listening to her mother and he would give her one chance. the true story was that she lost that chance and was eaten by the wolf. but my mom always changed it and made it a happy ending.

i can't think of any more right now, but there are a lot!
good luck

Prometheus giving fire to man - he disobeyed the Greek Gods

Why do you want to know?

All the stories in Arabian Nights where the boy is supposed NOT to go in through one particular door... which of course he does... This happens to princesses in Western fairytales, too, Bluebeard's wife, for instance. But she was saved by her disobedience, unlike the others.

And little Red Ridinghood didn't stay on the path, either.

Why do you want to know?

I'm writing a paper.

There's always the Lilith mythos. Hmmm, 's all I've got.

the prodigal son is a rather different take on disobedience

There's always the Lilith mythos. Hmmm, 's all I've got.
well the fall of satan would be in the same judeo christian vein, lots wife getting turned into a pillar of salt too.

Loki, but murder is a bit more extreme than mere disobedience