Mankind emerges from caves

Motif

Mankind emerges from caves.

Mythological motifs. · Creation and ordering of human life. · Creation of man. · Emergence or descent of first man to earth. · view the constellation · filed as A1232.3

Filed across the traditions

India Thompson-Balys
S. Am. Indian (Inca) Rowe BBAE CXLIII (2) 317, (Aymara): Tschopik ibid. (2) 571, (Araucanian): Cooper ibid. (2) 753, (Yuracare): Métraux ibid. (3) 503, (Mbaya): Métraux ibid. (1) 367, (Tiatinagua): Métraux ibid. (3) 449, (Caduveo): Métraux MAFLS XL 106
African Werner African 147.
general Haitian: Alexander Lat. Am. 30

Within the index

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

1 finer motif beneath it

Mankind emerges from a pit

Filed beside it

Mankind from bones of dead brought from underworld Mankind emerges from lake. A woman and boy. They marry and populate earth

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