Creation of man

Motif

Creation of man.

Mythological motifs. · Creation and ordering of human life. · Creation of man. · Creation of man. · view the constellation · filed as A1200

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“Then he went out and along the course that the racers were to go over, and hid himself, leaving his head just sticking out of a hole. By this time all the racers had started, and among them Coyote’s son. He was Coyote’s only child, and was very quick. He soon began to outstrip all the runners, and was in the lead. As he passed the spot where Rattlesnake had hidden himself, however, Rattlesnake raised oe en and bit the boy in the ankle.”

— Tales of the North American Indians, Tale 8 · served from our shelf receiptuncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan

Attested across traditions

North American IndigenousTales of the North American Indians, Tale 8 receipt
North American IndigenousTales of the North American Indians, Tale 9 receipt

Scholars’ trail — 7references

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.

Jewish*Neuman
SiberianHolmberg Siberian 371ff. – N. Am. Indian: *Thompson Tales 283 n. 49, (Calif.): Gayton and Newman 94
Eskimo (Bering Strait)Nelson RBAE XI 338, (N. Alaska and Mackenzie River): Jenness 80, (Labrador): Hawkes GSCan XIV 152, (Cumberland Sound): Boas BAM XV 167
QuichéAlexander Lat. Am. 163.
general *Hdwb. d. Abergl. I 460 s.v. "Anthropogonie"
general *DeCock Volkssage, 146ff.
general *Basset RTP XVIII 542 and references to earlier volumes. – Lappish: Qvigstad FFC LX 34 No. 6

Within the index

2 finer motifs beneath it

Man created to rule the earth Unacceptable gods as first inhabitants of earth

Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes

Hierarchy of worlds. A series of worlds, one above the other World-tree. Tree extending from lowest to highest world. (Cf. A878.)World-columns. Four (two, etc.) columns or supports sustain the earth Atlas. A man supports the earth on his shoulders Deluge. Inundation of whole world or section Flood from fluids of the body Flood from belly. It flows from pierced belly of monster World-fire. A conflagration destroys the earth. Sometimes (as with the flood legends) the tradition is somewhat local and does not refer to an actual destruction of the whole earth; sometimes the fire marks the end of the world Confusion of tongues. Originally all men speak same language. Because of a sin they come to speak different languages Origin of death Distribution of tribes Birds cling to sky in flood: cause of tail colors. (Cf. A2412.2.)

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