Mankind descended from fish

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Mankind descended from fish.

Mythological motifs. · Creation and ordering of human life. · Creation of man. · Creation of man through evolution. · view the constellation · filed as A1224.6

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YorubaThe Yoruba-Speaking Peoples of the Slave Coast of West Africa, Chapter 14

Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

S. Am. Indian (Tucuna)Nimuendajú BBAE CXLIII 93, 294.

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Filed under Descent of man from animals.

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