μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
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.

  • BabylonianSpence 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.

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Man springs into existence from deity's body by his mere thinkingMan from sweat of creatorMan from spittle of creatorMan made from creator's eyeMan 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 teacherPrimeval crab pulls first five living creatures out of his side

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