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

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

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

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Scholars’ trail — 4references

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.

Borneoibid. 159
general Arunta: Dixon 272
general Society Is.: ibid. 29, 164
general Nias Is., Samoan: ibid. 164 n. 35, 36.

Within the index

Filed under Creation of man through evolution.

2 finer motifs beneath it

First couple organically united. Like Siamese twins. (Cf. A1275.2.)Man originally without hands and feet. Boy steals them from Python, and afterward men have them

Filed beside it

Progressive degeneration to present race of men Mankind from unusual primeval mating Mankind originates from eggs Descent of man from animals Man created after series of unsuccessful experiments Different types of men produced from one original type

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