μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Man from dirt mixed with creator's blood.

Mythological motifs. · Creation and ordering of human life. · Creation of man. · Creation of man by creator. · view the constellation · filed as A1211.1

Filed across the traditions
  • Babylonian Spence 81. – New Britain: Dixon 107 (figures drawn on ground and sprinkled with creator's blood).
  • general Eitrem Opferritus und Voropfer der Griechen und Römer (Skrifter Akad. Oslo 1914 No. 1 426). Gaster Oldest Stories 69
Within the index

Filed under Man made from creator's body.

Filed beside it
Man springs into existence from deity's body by his mere thinking Man from sweat of creator Man from spittle of creator Man made from creator's eye Man made from dirt rubbed from creator's (hero's) body. (Cf. A833) Primeval human pair spring from two drops of urine of creator (woman from half-drop) First man the result of maid having licked semen-stained loin cloth of creator's teacher Primeval crab pulls first five living creatures out of his side

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