Night (darkness) in package. Released

Motif

Night (darkness) in package. Released.

Mythological motifs. · Establishment of natural order. · Origin of night and day. · view the constellation · filed as A1174.1

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Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

general Munderucú: Alexander Lat. Am. 310
general Arawak, Carib, Surinam: ibid. 274.

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Filed under Origin of night.

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Why some nights are dark and some light Purchase of night. Originally no night. Culture hero goes to distant land and buys it. He introduces sleep, etc. Cock to crow for day. (Cf. B755, J2272.1.)Night caused by deity wrapping himself in dark mantle

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