Golden age. A former age of perfection

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Golden age. A former age of perfection.

Mythological motifs. · Establishment of natural order. · Establishment of natural order. · view the constellation · filed as A1101.1

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Scholars’ trail — 11references

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.

Icel.De la Saussaye 165, MacCulloch Eddic 327, 378 n. 49, Boberg
LappishQvigstad FFC LX 35 No. 8
GreekFox 105, Grote I 62
JewishNeuman
PersianCarnoy 300, 305
HinduKeith 103
IndiaThompson-Balys. – Tuamotu: Stimson MS (z-G 13/50)
AztecAlexander Lat. Am. 66
Caribibid 262
general Hdwb. d. Abergl. III 927ff. – Irish myth: Cross
general Ackawoi: ibid. 269.

Within the index

Filed under The four ages of the world. A development of the present order through four stages or periods, the golden, silver, bronze, and iron ages, or the like.

3 finer motifs beneath it

Reign of peace and justice (under certain king)Even trees could speak in golden age Former age: spirits and ogres lived with men, and gods appeared in human guise

Filed beside it

Reversal of nature in former age

Travels with

Golden Age ends as result of broken tabu. (Cf. A1101.1.)

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