The constellation
A1480 Acquisition of wisdom and learning
A constellation is one motif’s neighborhood in the record — the story-shapes filed around it, the tale types that carry it, and the texts where it is witnessed, every line a receipted link. Click a motif to travel. Click a text to read it. The entry · wander
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● on the shelf
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The same sky, in words
beneath it
- Origin of human wisdom. It is kept hidden by monster and is later stolen. It escapes and spreads through the world. (Cf. A1111, A1421.) · A1481 entry
- Origin of language · A1482 entry
- Origin of reading and writing · A1484 entry
- How people learned about calculating time and the seasons · A1485 entry
- Origin of sciences · A1487 entry