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A1150 Determination of seasons
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- Establishment of times for sowing and reaping · A1150.1 entry
- Theft of the seasons. Certain seasons are lacking. A culture hero steals the season from a monster and brings it to his people · A1151 entry
- Boneless man turned over to produce seasons · A1152 entry
- Seasons produced by marriage of North and South · A1153 entry
- Genealogy of summer and winter · A1154 entry
- Why days lengthen in spring · A1155 entry
- Why days shorten in autumn: the real sun sets very early because the red cockscomb plant, used to kill his brother sun with, grows to its full height during this time · A1156 entry
- Causes of seasons – deities push sun back and forth at solstices · A1157 entry
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- Theft of the seasons. Certain seasons are lacking. A culture hero steals the season from a monster and brings it to his people · A1151 entry
- Determination of span of life · A1320 entry
- Plant characteristics from tears. (Cf. A2755.3.1, A2755.3.2.) · A2731.2 entry
- Origin of amber in poplar trees. (Cf. A2731.2.) · A2755.3.1 entry
- Origin of gum in myrrh tree. (Cf. A2731.2.) · A2755.3.2 entry
- Transformation: man to nightingale · D151.3 entry
- Sea produced by magic · D2151.1.1 entry
- Cecrops. Body compounded of man and serpent · F526.6 entry
- Man marries his aunt (mother's sister) · T421 entry
- Birth from semen thrown on ground · T541.10 entry
Thompson cites
- The Library (Bibliotheca) · BOOK III, ch. XIV
attested in
- Tales of the North American Indians · Tale 11