The constellation
A2252 Animal characteristics determined by race
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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● attested
The same sky, in words
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- Race of animals to see where each shall live. (Cf. A2433.1.1.) · A2252.1 entry
- Race of ox and horse: ox must labor. Horse wins and ox must serve as draft animal. (Cf. A2515.1.) · A2252.2 entry
- Race of culture hero with ostrich: ostrich loses beautiful feathers. (Cf. A2402.2.) · A2252.3 entry
- Flounder complains in race: crooked mouth. In race between fish he cries out in jealousy because herring is winning. He is punished with crooked mouth. (Cf. A2341.1.) · A2252.4 entry