μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 7references

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 177
  • AustralianDixon Oc. Myth. 271
  • Indonesianibid. 169 n. 79–81
  • Easter Is.Métraux Ethnology 312
  • Eskimo (Cape York)Rasmussen III 47
  • AfricanWerner 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 AdamMankind emerges from mountainSpontaneous generation. Scientists find child on deserted island. They suggest that he has emerged from the groundEarth gives birth to woman
Filed beside it
First man descends from skyMankind ascends from under the earth. (Cf. A1631.)Mankind emerges from tree. (Cf. A1251.)

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