Mankind emerges from ground

Motif

Mankind emerges from ground.

Mythological motifs. · Creation and ordering of human life. · Creation of man. · Emergence or descent of first man to earth. · view the constellation · filed as A1234

Filed across the traditions

Greek *Grote I 177
Australian Dixon Oc. Myth. 271
Indonesian ibid. 169 n. 79–81
Easter Is. Métraux Ethnology 312
Eskimo (Cape York) Rasmussen III 47
African Werner African 147.
general Papuan (British New Guinea): ibid. 110

Within the index

Filed under Emergence or descent of first man to earth.

4 finer motifs beneath it

Earth as virgin mother of Adam Mankind emerges from mountain Spontaneous generation. Scientists find child on deserted island. They suggest that he has emerged from the ground Earth gives birth to woman

Filed beside it

First man descends from sky Mankind ascends from under the earth. (Cf. A1631.) Mankind emerges from tree. (Cf. A1251.)

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