Mankind descended from worms or larvae

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Mankind descended from worms or larvae.

Mythological motifs. · Creation and ordering of human life. · Creation of man. · Creation of man through evolution. · view the constellation · filed as A1224.2

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Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

TongaGifford 15f.
S. Am. Indian (Cashinawa)Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 684.
general Eastern Indonesian: Dixon 169

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Filed under Descent of man from animals.

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Mankind is descended from marriage of human being and animal Mankind descended from tadpoles Woman created from dog's tail. Eve Mankind born from a cow Descent of men from monkeys Mankind descended from fish Creation of man by creator from ants. He commands them to become men

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