Mankind emerges from lake. A woman and boy. They marry and populate earth.
Mythological motifs. · Creation and ordering of human life. · Creation of man. · Emergence or descent of first man to earth. · view the constellation · filed as A1232.2
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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.
- general Chibcha (with reference to other South American tribes): Alexander Lat. Am. 199.
Within the index
Filed under Mankind ascends from under the earth. (Cf. A1631.)
1 finer motif beneath it
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