μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Descent of men from monkeys.

Mythological motifs. · Creation and ordering of human life. · Creation of man. · Creation of man through evolution. · view the constellation · filed as A1224.5

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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.

  • Chinese Graham.
Within the index

Filed under Descent of man from animals.

1 finer motif beneath it
Men are monkeys who have lost their tails
Filed beside it
Mankind is descended from marriage of human being and animal Mankind descended from tadpoles Mankind descended from worms or larvae Woman created from dog's tail. Eve Mankind born from a cow Mankind descended from fish Creation of man by creator from ants. He commands them to become men

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