Baby + reed basket + river = this trope
trope (literature) | wkpd
baby-in-a-basket trope found in mythical bios: Moses, Sargon, Karna, and Osiris (maybe more, say Romulus and Remus, Taliesin, Perseus, Ariadne?)
Which "baby found floating down the river in a basket" story was first ...king Sargon, or Moses? | yahu
Basket Cases: Moses, Sargon, and Karna (illustrated) 2013 | tringl
Moses, Sargon & Karna: Babies in Baskets 2017 | ftfld
It seems the concept of a child being abandoned by his mother, being dumped in a river, then found by a person connected to the local king and becoming a great leader is too good a plot to pass up. (a brilliant story trope to retro-elevate a low-born person to high status... a faux-bio) Similarly, King Nyatri Tsenpo, the first king of Tibet, and Oedipus, king of (Greek) Thebes.
Sargon vs Moses (Ministry, see library of more)
Moses in the Bulrushes | tvtrps
Child abandonment | wkpd
World Folklore: The Child Cast Adrift 2016
Infanticide
female infanticide
In ancient times, high-status customarily came by birth ... but if by self-endeavors, a myth of his origin connected him to high status (patrilineage dominates because force is a male bailiwick, and brute force always defeats feminine regimes (1977))
Shrouded in Myth
Nyatri, Tsenpo (king) of Tibet
Horus (son of Osiris) hides, with ma in reed marsh
Oedipus, 'Swollen-Foot' exposed (abandoned)
Heracles, abandoned (scroll down to abandoned and Milky Way)
Perseus baby in a basket? — no wait,
Mermaids in the Basement 1994
Bacchus (Dionysos) and Ariadne
artworks
cornucopia, good stuff comes in baskets
study notes
https://www.amazon.com/Baby-Basket-Gloria-Rand/dp/0525652337
spiritual meaning of basket
origin myths, rational revolution
said bonnie boat, carry the lad born to be sking
Epic Gilgamesh OCR transcript
Moses' story retold by Minh Nguyen | vietchr
http://apostolicfaithweca.org/content/baby-basket-river
Ancestry Matters: Patrilineage Growth and Extinction | NCBI (long read, technical)
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ForceAndFinesse
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