Man originally without hands and feet. Boy steals them from Python, and afterward men have them

Motif

Man originally without hands and feet. Boy steals them from Python, and afterward men have them.

Mythological motifs. · Creation and ordering of human life. · Creation of man. · Creation of man through evolution. · view the constellation · filed as A1225.2

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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.

Africa (Ekoi)Talbot 376.

Within the index

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

1 finer motif beneath it

Man given hands, feet, mouth and nose by monkey

Filed beside it

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

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