Descent of man from animals.
Mythological motifs. · Creation and ordering of human life. · Creation of man. · Creation of man through evolution. · view the constellation · filed as A1224
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
- Depth Commentary Totem and Taboo: Resemblances Between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics , Chapter I
- Depth Commentary Totem and Taboo: Resemblances Between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics , Chapter IV
- Hermetic / Alchemical Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Volume I: Prolegomena , Chapter XIII: Plato: Concerning Metempsychosis
- Depth Commentary Primitive Culture: Researches into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art, and Custom , Chapter X
Filed across the traditions
- Koryak Jochelson JE VI 374
- Eskimo (Smith Sound) Kroeber JAFL XII 168, (Ungava): Turner RBAE XI 261, (Greenland): Rink 471, (Cape York): Rasmussen III 85, (W. Hudson Bay): Boas BAM XV 359, (Labrador): Hawkes GSCan XIV 152, (Bering Strait): Nelson RBAE XVIII 482, (Mackenzie River): Jenness RCanAE XIII 81
- S. Am. Indian (Toba) Métraux MAFLS XL 104.
- general *Lang Myth I 179, 184
- general *Hdwb. d. Abergl. I 465
- general *Frazer Old Testament I 33ff. Australian: Van Gennep Mythes et légendes d'Australie 2f., 8f.
Within the index
Filed under Creation of man through evolution.
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