Mankind from bones of dead brought from underworld

Motif

Mankind from bones of dead brought from underworld.

Mythological motifs. · Creation and ordering of human life. · Creation of man. · Emergence or descent of first man to earth. · view the constellation · filed as A1232.1

Filed across the traditions

Aztec Alexander Lat. Am. 90.

Within the index

Filed under Mankind ascends from under the earth. (Cf. A1631.)

Filed beside it

Mankind emerges from lake. A woman and boy. They marry and populate earth Mankind emerges from caves

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