μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
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.

  • Greek*Grote I 62
  • QuichéAlexander Lat. Am. 163ff.
  • general Cakchiquel: ibid. 180
  • general Banks Is.: Beckwith Myth 61.
Within the index

Filed under Creation of man through evolution.

1 finer motif beneath it
Creator makes man out of butter first; it would not stand up and melted
Filed beside it
Progressive degeneration to present race of menMankind from unusual primeval matingMankind originates from eggsDescent of man from animalsFirst men undeveloped. Rudimentary and amorphous, gradually assume present shapeDifferent types of men produced from one original type

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