μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 16references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

  • JewishNeuman. – Mexican Indian: (Tarascan) Alexander Lat. Am. 85, (Zapotecan) ibid. 87
  • PolynesiaDixon 21 n. 47
  • HawaiianBeckwith Myth 42
  • Mono-AluWheeler 28, 66f., 70
  • Easter Is.Métraux BMB CLX 313
  • Marshall Is.Davenport Folk Tales 221f.
  • TahitiHenry Ancient Tahiti 335ff.
  • New HebridesCodrington II 365. – Armenian: Ananikian 20
  • AfricanWerner African 127ff., **Frobenius and Fox, (Loango): Pechuël-Loesche 267
  • HinduPenzer I 10
  • Buddhist mythMalalasekera II 338
  • Icel.Boberg, MacCulloch Eddic 326
  • Irish mythCross.
  • general For a general bibliography of creation myths, see Alexander N. Am. 278 n. 15. For bibliographies of North American Indian mythologies arranged by areas, see Thompson Tales 272 n. 1
  • general **Feilberg Skabelses og Syndflodssagn
  • general Guarayú: Métraux RMLP XXXIII 147
Within the index
5 finer motifs beneath it
Identity of creatorMultiple creatorsCreative mother source of everythingReason for creationCreator's descendants. (Cf. A32.)
Travels with
Supreme god as creator. (Cf. A0.)Opening of creator's eyes creates day. (Cf. A0.)Creation of animals by creator. (Cf. A0.)Topographical features of the earth arranged by creator. (Cf. A0.)Magic objects created by God on sixth day. (Cf. A0)

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