μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

First couple organically united. Like Siamese twins. (Cf. A1275.2.)

Mythological motifs. · Creation and ordering of human life. · Creation of man. · Creation of man through evolution. · view the constellation · filed as A1225.1

Filed across the traditions
  • Jewish Neuman. – S. Am. Indian (Chaco): Alexander Lat. Am. 322, (Lengua): Métraux BBAE CXLIII (1) 267.
Within the index

Filed under First men undeveloped. Rudimentary and amorphous, gradually assume present shape.

Filed beside it
Man originally without hands and feet. Boy steals them from Python, and afterward men have them
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
First man split in two to form mate. (Cf. A1225.1.)

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