Night caused by deity wrapping himself in dark mantle

Motif

Night caused by deity wrapping himself in dark mantle.

Mythological motifs. · Establishment of natural order. · Origin of night and day. · view the constellation · filed as A1174.4

Scholars’ trail — 1 reference (open)

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.

Maori Clark 17, 21.

Within the index

Filed under Origin of night.

Filed beside it

Night (darkness) in package. Released 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.)

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